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Some People Need Killin’
If you’ve followed along with the reading schedule posted here for the last two months, congratulations are in order. You’ve already read over 700 pages of world-class literature and, no doubt, have expanded your horizons by considering questions and problems … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Liberal Arts
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Cicero, Edward Kasner, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Homer, Pliny the Younger
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Throwing Ralph Waldo Emerson into a Volcano
It’s Great Books Monday; are you ready for the Bard? Here are the reading selections for the coming week: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (GBWW Vol. 24, pp. 199-228) “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of … Continue reading
We’re Not Reading Enough Philosophy!
I had a bit of an epiphany last week. Feeling comfortable about the pace I had set for reading through the Gateway to the Great Books series this year, I decided to run some numbers to determine whether we’d be … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Kasner, Great Books, Plato, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Prescott
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