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Archimedes Breaks Things
I failed to mention last week that we have passed the 17,000-page mark in our Great Books Project. With all the works we’ve completed or are about to complete this month, it got lost in the shuffle. Let’s celebrate with … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Cervantes, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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Darwin Is Done
This past week we wrapped up the last of our readings from Charles Darwin in the Great Books Project, completing Volume 49 of the Great Books of the Western World. This week we’ll see the last of Descartes. Here are … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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Sheep Are No Match for Don Quixote
The Great Books Project marches on in 2014! Expect a summary of our 2013 and overall progress later in the week. Here are the readings for the coming week: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Book XV (GBWW Vol. 37, pp. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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“That he our deadly forfeit should release . . .”
This week in the Great Books Project we come within a whisker of our 5,000th page of Imaginative Literature and 3,500th page of Science and Mathematics. That seems like a pretty good way to ring in the new year! Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, John Milton, Plutarch
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Tilting at Windmills
To observe Christmas this week in the Great Books Project, I’m sandwiching in something seasonally appropriate between the irreverence of Fielding and Cervantes. I think you’ll like it (unless, of course, you’re a philistine!). Here are the readings for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Max Weber, Thomas Aquinas
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Oedipus Goes to Die
When was the last time I went exactly seven days between Great Books posts? I have no idea, to be honest. Nevertheless, we completed 16,500 pages last week and continue our journey through the Great Conversation. Here are the readings … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Sophocles, Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Malthus Isn’t All Bad
It looks like I’m squeaking in under the wire for another Great Books Monday post, thanks to Galen and Descartes (mostly Descartes). We are closing in on the 10,000-page and will be there in a couple of weeks. Here are … Continue reading
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Tagged Descartes, Epictetus, Galen, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne, Thomas Malthus
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War in Heaven . . . Outcome Never in Doubt
It’s Great Books Monday (on Monday!) again, and this week we are going to pass 2,400 pages in the philosophy/religion category. Can you think of a better way to do that than by working excruciatingly difficult math problems? Of course … Continue reading
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Tagged Descartes, Galen, Great Books, Henrik Ibsen, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Montaigne, Thomas Aquinas
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Queequeg’s Coffin and the Great Man Theory of History
It’s Great Books Monday once again, and I’m feeling really motivated this week. I spent some time yesterday looking over what we’re likely to attack in the next few weeks, and it is really great stuff, starting with our selections … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Descartes, Great Books, H.L.F. von Helmholtz, Herman Melville, Sophocles, William James
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Breaking Captain Ahab’s Head on an Anvil
We’ve put it off for too long; it’s time to read some ancient Greek drama. Here are the readings for the upcoming week: Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ch. 133-Epilogue (GBWW Vol. 48, pp. 246-260) “Great Men and Their Environment” … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Herman Melville, Laplace, Montaigne
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