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Monthly Archives: June 2014
The Scandalous Decomposition of Elder Zossima
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 this blog’s Great Books Project, 2011-2017. What is wrong with the world? Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Blaise Pascal, Edward Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, William James
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Ever Wonder How They Figured Out Pi?
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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Tagged Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Edward Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne
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Smerdyakov Scripts His Own Epileptic Seizure
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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Tagged Blaise Pascal, C.H. Waddington, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, Thomas Aquinas
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The Biases of Biologists
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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Readings Page Updated
Today I noticed with surprise and embarrassment that it has been a full year since I’ve updated the list of completed works on the “What We’ve Read” page. It took some time, but I’m glad to say that it is … Continue reading
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Dmitri Karamazov Is an Idiot
We have lots of moderns on this week’s reading list in the Great Books Project, but don’t let that discourage you. Thomas Aquinas makes up for a lot. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by … Continue reading
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Tagged Blaise Pascal, Edward Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Aquinas
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Through the Great Books 