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The Honor of Lilliputians
Amazingly, we’re coming to the end of Month 25 of readings in this Great Books Project. Last week we read our 3,000th page of Philosophy and Theology. This week we’ll come within a whisker of passing the 3,500-page mark in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Great Books, Jonathan Swift, Ptolemy, William Hazlitt
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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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Young People, You WILL Die, So Stop Pretending
Another Monday, another 100+ pages of Western civilization’s best in the books. What’s not to like? Here are the readings for the upcoming week: “The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller” by Gustave Flaubert (GGB Vol. 3, pp. 371-392) “Theseus” … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, Euclid, Federalist Papers, Great Books, Montaigne, Stephen Crane, William Hazlitt
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Mobsters, Melting Pots, and Lab Explosions
If you’re reading the Great Books along with me, are you starting to look at the world in a slightly different way? I think I am, even though I already work with some of these texts as part of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Epictetus, Ernest Hemingway, Great Books, Jean de Crevecoeur, John Tyndall, Michael Faraday, William Hazlitt
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Dung Beetles and a Townful of Liars
If you aren’t following along with the readings I’m posting each Monday, let me tell you that you are missing out on some great stuff. Here are the selections for the upcoming week: “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway (Vol. 2, … Continue reading