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Let Us Sit upon the Ground and Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
After the heaviness of Ptolemy, Aristotle, and Hegel, I figured we could lighten things up by reading a socialist. That should be good entertainment! Here are the readings for the coming week: Six Characters in Search of an Author by … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Claude Bernard, David Hume, G.W.F. Hegel, Great Books, Shakespeare, Tacitus
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The Christmas Carol Before “A Christmas Carol”
I’m clawing my way back towards a Great Books Monday post. Making up two days this week is a good start. The prospect of finishing The Critique of Pure Reason is a powerful motivator to get started on this week’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, David Hume, Epictetus, Great Books, Immanuel Kant, Ptolemy
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Do Russian Authors Ever Write Happy Stories?
I’ve been limping through last week’s Great Books readings over the last ten days (no, it’s not the result of watching election coverage) and am finally ready to post on them. I have some catching up to do (Kant is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Aristotle, David Hume, Great Books, Immanuel Kant, Nikolai Gogol, Ptolemy
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Leaving Eden
It looks like I’m just barely going to make an actual Great Books Monday post this week. The big news is that, after wrapping up Paradise Lost last week, we embark today on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, David Hume, Great Books, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, Ptolemy, Richard Sheridan
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Is Luxury Good or Evil?
On this Great Books Monday, I hope you are in a calculating mood. Not only are we embarking on one of Aristotle’s works on logic, but we’re also reading the father of amoral political calculation this week. Here are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Aristophanes, Charles Darwin, David Hume, Epictetus, Great Books, Leopold Infeld, Plutarch
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Hume on Miracles and Charles Babbage’s Response
A few weeks ago, I deferred commenting in my weekly Great Books post on David Hume’s argument in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding against miracles, writing that I wanted to devote an entire post to the subject. Between my travels, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Babbage, Christianity, David Hume, Philip Jenkins, religion
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“Cut Me One From His Small!”
Here are some observations on last week’s Great Books readings: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Chapters 55-75: If Ahab’s soliloquy over the dead sperm whale didn’t give you chills, I think there must be something wrong with you. And since … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Aristotle, David Hume, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Herman Melville, William Gilbert
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Goodbye, Alexander Hamilton
As we close in on the end of the first year of this Great Books reading program, I’m looking back over the list of works we’ve read and can’t help being impressed. That list will only grow, of course. I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, David Hume, Federalist Papers, George Washington, Great Books, Herman Melville, William Gilbert
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Captain Ahab Means Business
Another Monday, another feeling of accomplishment at what we read in the past week. If you find yourself struggling to find enough time to read, consider picking up audio versions of some of these works and listening to them in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, David Hume, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Haniel Long, Herman Melville, William Gilbert
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Moderns Hate Aristotle
Reading the Great Books won’t burn off the turkey you ate last week, but it ought to. This week we pass 1,500 pages in Imaginative Literature and 1,300 pages in Philosophy and Theology; that is some hard work, let me … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Herman Melville, William Gilbert
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