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Reading the Great Books: Another Volume Down
Yes, you read that correctly. With the completion of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War last week, we have now finished in their entirety two—count them, two!—volumes of the Great Books of the Western World series. It might not seem … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Wohler, John Dewey, Thucydides, virgil
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When Athenians Attack!
I’m logging in a day late with this weekly Great Books post; I hope you’ll forgive my tardiness. We’re halfway through the Aeneid and are nearing the completion of a couple of other longer works. I’m enjoying all these works … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Henri Poincare, John Dewey, Matthew Arnold, Thucydides, virgil
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Funeral Games and Giant Aliens
Another Monday means another report on the Great Books. We’re still plugging along and on pace to finish in 2017. This week we will cross the 6,500-page mark in the program. Here are the readings for the upcoming week: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Hippocrates, John Dewey, Thucydides, virgil, Voltaire
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Spartans Actually Do Surrender Sometimes
Having just come off a weekend where I had the satisfying experience of seeing a live stream of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung from the Met, I feel like I ought to start an opera (or at least a classical music) project. Maybe … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Great Books, John Dewey, John Synge, Norman Robert Campbell, Thucydides, virgil
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
Do you feel a sense of responsibility when you realize that, when you read the Great Books, you are dealing with some of the most profound and influential documents in the history of the world? I think that some people … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Great Books, John Dewey, Norman Robert Campbell, Thucydides, virgil, William Hazlitt
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The Great Books Are Diversity
Anyone who claims to appreciate diversity should enjoy reading the Great Books. In the past week we read one of the world’s greatest historians, a philosopher who thinks history is for little minds, and authors who variously interpret life as … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Augustine, Erwin Schrodinger, Great Books, John Dewey, Thucydides, virgil
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Augustine Censures the Pagans
On this Great Books Monday, we launch into the reading of the most influential epic (I do not say the greatest) in the history of the West. With Virgil added to the readings from the most important post-apostolic theologian in … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Erwin Schrodinger, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Jefferson, Thucydides
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