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Archimedes Breaks Things
I failed to mention last week that we have passed the 17,000-page mark in our Great Books Project. With all the works we’ve completed or are about to complete this month, it got lost in the shuffle. Let’s celebrate with … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Cervantes, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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Darwin Is Done
This past week we wrapped up the last of our readings from Charles Darwin in the Great Books Project, completing Volume 49 of the Great Books of the Western World. This week we’ll see the last of Descartes. Here are … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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Sheep Are No Match for Don Quixote
The Great Books Project marches on in 2014! Expect a summary of our 2013 and overall progress later in the week. Here are the readings for the coming week: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Book XV (GBWW Vol. 37, pp. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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“That he our deadly forfeit should release . . .”
This week in the Great Books Project we come within a whisker of our 5,000th page of Imaginative Literature and 3,500th page of Science and Mathematics. That seems like a pretty good way to ring in the new year! Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, John Milton, Plutarch
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A Muggle in the Thirty Years War
I can’t put it off any longer. Dust off that suit of armor in your closet, because it’s time to open Cervantes. Here are the readings for the coming week: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, Book XII (GBWW Vol. 37, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Rene Descartes, Thomas Aquinas
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Oedipus Goes to Die
When was the last time I went exactly seven days between Great Books posts? I have no idea, to be honest. Nevertheless, we completed 16,500 pages last week and continue our journey through the Great Conversation. Here are the readings … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Sophocles, Thomas Aquinas
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“A House Where Old Friends Were Betrayed”
Welcome to December! It’s hard to believe we are nearing the end of our third full year of readings in the Great Books Project. As usual, I’ll do a summary of the year’s accomplishments in early January, but I think … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas, Willa Cather
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Millers and Carpenters are Naughty Men
This week in the Great Books Project we will come within a whisker of our 3,500th page in the Man and Society category. We’ve also made up two weeks of the three-week hiatus I took in June for my vacation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Books, Isaac Newton, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Plutarch, pragmatism, William James
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Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote . . .
I know that all you Great Books readers have missed William James the past several months, and that you’re wondering why there were no 19th- or 20th-century works last week, so I am killing two birds with one stone this … Continue reading
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Tagged Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Books, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Plutarch
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Get Up, Lazybones
I don’t know about you, but it irks me that even after reading 3,000 pages of science and mathematics in this Great Books Project, I still have trouble reading Isaac Newton. Oh, and I completely forgot to mention that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Friedrich Schiller, Great Books, Isaac Newton, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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