Tag Archives: Montaigne

Back to Cloud Cuckoo Land

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Dr. J

Another month has been lost as a result of my extensive travels, but I continue pressing forward with the Great Books Project. The next round of readings includes a Shakespeare favorite, so there is no excuse to stop now! Here … Continue reading →

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Many a True Word Hath Been Spoken in Jest

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Dr. J

I’ve been putting off for some time, but the time has finally come to dig into Plato’s Laws. It will be a heavy week with that, Aquinas, and James, but Aristophanes will lighten things up a bit. Here are the … Continue reading →

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William James Argues for the Soul

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Dr. J

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 Dr. J

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 Dr. J

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 Dr. J

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 Dr. J

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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Ever Wonder How They Figured Out Pi?

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dr. J

This week in the Great Books Project you have a chance to remedy that gaping hole in your education. I refer, of course, to your most likely never having read a masque before. Therefore, I give you John Milton. Here … Continue reading →

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Smerdyakov Scripts His Own Epileptic Seizure

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dr. J

In a mere two weeks we’ll have made it to the halfway point in our seven-year journey to read through the Great Books of the Western World. If we’re lucky, we might be halfway through the Brothers K by then … Continue reading →

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The Biases of Biologists

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Dr. J

This week in the Great Books Project we pass the 4,000-page mark in the Science and Mathematics category. Just typing that number exhausts me. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part II … Continue reading →

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