Tag Archives: Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Great Books Project Returns

Posted on October 18, 2014 by

I note with horror that it has been more than a month since my last post on this blog. A big part of the reason for that was my difficulty in getting internet access during a 3.5-week research and conference … Continue reading →

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Huns Are Meanies

Posted on September 8, 2014 by

This week in the Great Books Project we finish a great novel while pretending we haven’t fallen further behind on the posting schedule. Let’s get right to it. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by … Continue reading →

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Why Diogenes Refused to Give References

Posted on August 30, 2014 by

This week in the Great Books Project we will hit the 5,000-page mark in the Man and Society category, although I can’t say I’m really feeling more manly or social than usual. Here are the readings for the coming week: … Continue reading →

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St. Thomas Defends the Filioque Clause

Posted on August 19, 2014 by

We have no significant milestones to report in the Great Books Project this week, although we are closing in on the 5,000-page mark in the Man and Society category. Gibbon, no doubt, will carry us through in the next couple … Continue reading →

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The Killer Is Revealed

Posted on August 14, 2014 by

It’s shaping up to be a challenging week in the Great Books Project. Our psychology reading is quite long, and we have a short work by Kant as well. Hang in there, and flee to Dostoevsky if the pressure builds … Continue reading →

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William James Argues for the Soul

Posted on August 5, 2014 by

This week in the Great Books Project we return to the wisdom of the Stoics after a lengthy hiatus. It’s time to begin Book II of Epictetus’s Discourses. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by … Continue reading →

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Humans are Bundles of Habits

Posted on July 28, 2014 by

This week in the Great Books Project, in addition to breaking the 20,000-page barrier I referenced last time, we will also pass the 6,000-page mark in the Imaginative Literature category. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers … Continue reading →

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Constantine’s Conversion Was Real

Posted on July 21, 2014 by

This week we come within a hair of 20,000 pages in the Great Books Project. Let’s get right to it. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Book X (GBWW Vol. … Continue reading →

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Dmitri Karamazov Puts His Foot in It

Posted on July 10, 2014 by

This week in the Great Books Project we pass the 5,000-page mark in the Philosophy/Theology category. I suppose it’s only fitting that we do so with Plato. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor … Continue reading →

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The Scandalous Decomposition of Elder Zossima

Posted on June 30, 2014 by

Everyone is talking about the Hobby Lobby case today, but I haven’t heard a single national news outlet mention that today also marks the halfway point of the Western Tradition’s Great Books Project, 2011-2017. What is wrong with the world? … Continue reading →

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