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Scientist Works Way Back to God
Big news in the Great Books Project today: we are cracking open a new volume, something we haven’t done since beginning War and Peace. Here are the readings for the coming week: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Book X, Chapters … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, Great Books, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hobbes, William James, William Shakespeare
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Many a True Word Hath Been Spoken in Jest
I’ve been putting off for some time, but the time has finally come to dig into Plato’s Laws. It will be a heavy week with that, Aquinas, and James, but Aristophanes will lighten things up a bit. Here are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne, William James, William Shakespeare
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The Great Books Project Returns
I note with horror that it has been more than a month since my last post on this blog. A big part of the reason for that was my difficulty in getting internet access during a 3.5-week research and conference … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Great Books, Thomas Aquinas, William James
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Another Volume Down
With the completion of Don Quixote this past week, we have finished reading ten volumes of the Great Books of the Western World series in their entirety. That leaves 48 to go, only five of which we haven’t read at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Whitehead, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne
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Zenobia in Chains
This week we’ll pass the 4,500-page mark in the Man and Society category of this Great Books Project. It’s good to have Gibbon’s lively prose carrying us forward. Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne
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Sancho Panza as Solomon
We get a shot in the arm this week in the Great Books Project with some “new blood” now that we have completed Nietzsche and Lavoisier (both for good because each only had a single work in the collection). I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne
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Rocinante Has Nothing on This Wooden Horse
This week, as in most weeks, I saw at least two or three situations where some sort of observation from or application of the week’s Great Books readings were a propos. I wish I had more blogging time to discuss … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne
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Four Emperors in Two Chapters
This week in the Great Books Project we will pass the 5,500-page mark in the Imaginative Literature category. Buckle up! Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne
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Roman Pygmies and Herd Morality
I neglected to mention it last week, but we have now passed the 18,000-page mark in this Great Books Project. Onward! Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne
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O Voltaire! O Humanity! O Idiocy!
With the completion of the Histories of Tacitus, we have finished another volume in the GBWW series. This week we continue our readings in Roman history with our first foray into Gibbon. Here are the readings for the coming week: … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne, Tacitus
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