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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Leaving Eden
It looks like I’m just barely going to make an actual Great Books Monday post this week. The big news is that, after wrapping up Paradise Lost last week, we embark today on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, Ptolemy, Richard Sheridan
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Suffrage Doesn’t Preserve Liberty
In the Great Books Project this week, we will wrap up the English language’s greatest poem as well as one of the English language’s funniest plays. We’ll also embark on a reading of one of the most important scientific works … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, John C. Calhoun, John Milton, Richard Sheridan
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Space and Time: A Priori Intuitions?
On this Great Books Monday, I’ve been ruminating on the difficulty of some of the works we’re going through. Seriously, Aristotle’s Physics and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason are pretty dense. I’ve had to remind myself that part of analytical … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, Richard Sheridan, Voltaire
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The Devil Made Them Do It
Welcome to Great Books Monday! We need some fanfare to commemorate the fact that this week we hit the 10,000-page mark in our reading program, as well as the 3,000-page mark in Imaginative Literature and the 2,500-page mark in Philosophy/Religion. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Hippocrates, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, John Ruskin, Ludwig von Mises, Richard Sheridan
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What Is Temperance? Don’t Ask Socrates
After not posting for more than a week (international travel can do that to you), it’s good to be back with this week’s Great Books post. We are closing in on several milestones in our reading schedule, but today I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Dmitri Mendeleev, John Milton, John Ruskin, Plato, Richard Sheridan
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