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Tag Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche
Sancho Panza as Solomon
We get a shot in the arm this week in the Great Books Project with some “new blood” now that we have completed Nietzsche and Lavoisier (both for good because each only had a single work in the collection). I’m … Continue reading
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Rocinante Has Nothing on This Wooden Horse
This week, as in most weeks, I saw at least two or three situations where some sort of observation from or application of the week’s Great Books readings were a propos. I wish I had more blogging time to discuss … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Edward Gibbon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne
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Four Emperors in Two Chapters
This week in the Great Books Project we will pass the 5,500-page mark in the Imaginative Literature category. Buckle up! Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, … Continue reading
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Roman Pygmies and Herd Morality
I neglected to mention it last week, but we have now passed the 18,000-page mark in this Great Books Project. Onward! Here are the readings for the coming week: The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de … Continue reading
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O Voltaire! O Humanity! O Idiocy!
With the completion of the Histories of Tacitus, we have finished another volume in the GBWW series. This week we continue our readings in Roman history with our first foray into Gibbon. Here are the readings for the coming week: … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Cervantes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne, Tacitus
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Nietzsche Throws Bombs
I failed to mention last week that we finished yet another volume of the Great Books of the Western World series when we wrapped up Spinoza’s Ethics. I forget exactly how many that makes, but we’ve already knocked out several … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Lavoisier, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Books, Montaigne, Tacitus, Voltaire
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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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