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Scoffers Can Become Saints
For this Great Books Monday, I glanced over my spreadsheet to get a quick idea of how much ground we’ve covered so far in the reading program. Of the 1,600+ pages in the can, we’ve completed eight short stories, two … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Euclid, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Gustave Flaubert, Plutarch
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Young People, You WILL Die, So Stop Pretending
Another Monday, another 100+ pages of Western civilization’s best in the books. What’s not to like? Here are the readings for the upcoming week: “The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller” by Gustave Flaubert (GGB Vol. 3, pp. 371-392) “Theseus” … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Euclid, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Montaigne, Stephen Crane, William Hazlitt
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If I Don’t Think, Do I Not Exist?
As Great Books Monday rolls around again, we’re preparing to dive into one of the greatest classics of spirituality of all time, not to mention the world’s first autobiography. Are you ready? Here are the readings for the coming week: … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Descartes, Euclid, Federalist Papers, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Moliere
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Kill ’em All and Let the Gods Sort Them Out
It’s Great Books Monday. We’ve completed one quarter of readings and have twenty-seven to go. My only regret in setting up this project is that I didn’t begin it years ago. I begin each week with a sense of anticipation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Euclid, Great Books, Homer, Montaigne, Walt Whitman, William James
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Are We Naturally Savage Jerks?
With another week’s worth of reading from the Great Books logged, I’m wondering how anyone who has any degree of familiarity with this body of literature could possibly maintain that it’s irrelevant to life in the modern world. The themes … Continue reading
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Tagged American War of Independence, Euclid, Francis Bacon, George Washington, Great Books, Homer, John Stuart Mill
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Drinking the Hemlock
It’s Great Books Monday here at the Western Tradition, and the top hits of Western Civilization just keep on coming. If you have done all the readings since we began in January, you have logged over 1,000 pages by this … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American War of Independence, Euclid, Great Books, Homer, Plato, Thomas Jefferson
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