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Interview: Why Christians Should Read the Great Books
A recent post here resulted in an invitation to appear on the Research on Religion podcast. Host Tony Gill was intrigued by my applying lessons from Plato to dining at Applebee’s in the 21st century. We recorded the interview last … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Applebee's, Aristotle, Augustine, Bible, Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Dante, Epictetus, Euclid, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Homer, John Calvin, John Milton, Karl Marx, Nicolas Copernicus, Plato, Research on Religion, Thomas Aquinas, virgil, Voltaire
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Rationality, Instinct, and Miracles
At long last, I’m able to make this week’s Great Books post, after going close to a week without a decent internet connection. Here are the readings for this week: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Ch. 37-43 (GBWW … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Charles Darwin, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mark Twain
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“To Be, or Not to Be; That Is the Bare Bodkin”
It’s another Great Books Monday, and an acid test of my commitment to this project because I’ve had to lug several books on my family vacation. So far, so good! Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Adventures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Charles Darwin, Epictetus, Francois Guizot, Great Books, Mark Twain, Montaigne
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Happiness is a Form of Contemplation
Here we are on another Great Books Monday, and this week we’ll break that 8,000-page barrier I mentioned last week. That includes almost 2,400 pages of imaginative literature, over 1,900 pages of “man and society,” over 1,600 pages of science/mathematics, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Mark Twain, Plutarch
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Bad Philosophy Leads to Moral Corruption
It’s Great Books Monday, and this week we’ll come within a whisker of our 8,000th page of reading since January 2011. Things sure do add up after awhile. Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Mark Twain, Plutarch, Thomas De Quincey
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How Would Aristotle Describe YOUR Friendships?
It’s Great Books Monday once again, and I’d like to note that in this program’s most difficult genre (for me), science and mathematics, we’re going to pass the 1,600-page mark this week. But if you’re just joining us, don’t despair; … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Lucius Apuleius, Mark Twain
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Civilization Trumps Love
Don’t look now, but this week those who have followed the Great Books Project in its entirety will read their 2,000th page of philosophy and theology since January 2011. Feeling smarter? Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Adventures … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Great Books, James Galsworthy
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Get Over Yourself, Walt
With 7,500 pages down and a mere 30,000 or so to go, we are motoring through the Great Books here at the Western Tradition. For new readers, this may be a good week to jump into the program because we … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, Francis Bacon, Great Books, John Stuart Mill, Walt Whitman
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The Fundamental Human Right to . . . Join a Union?
The records keep falling here at the Western Tradition on our Great Books Project. This week we’ll pass the 7,500-page mark. Are you ready? Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Anton Chekhov, Aristotle, Augustine, Charles Darwin, United Nations
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You Can Cheat Death (if Heracles Beats Him up for You)
Here we are on another Great Books Monday, and we’re about to experience some bracing contrasts in our readings. I guess that’s what you call it when you group a Christian theologian with a medieval romance, secular humanitarianism, and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Augustine, Euripides, Great Books, Leonhard Euler, Thomas De Quincey, United Nations
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