Tag Archives: Blaise Pascal

Humans are Bundles of Habits

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Dr. J

This week in the Great Books Project, in addition to breaking the 20,000-page barrier I referenced last time, we will also pass the 6,000-page mark in the Imaginative Literature category. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers … Continue reading →

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Dmitri Karamazov Puts His Foot in It

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Dr. J

This week in the Great Books Project we pass the 5,000-page mark in the Philosophy/Theology category. I suppose it’s only fitting that we do so with Plato. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor … Continue reading →

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The Scandalous Decomposition of Elder Zossima

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Dr. J

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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Ever Wonder How They Figured Out Pi?

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Dr. J

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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Smerdyakov Scripts His Own Epileptic Seizure

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Dr. J

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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The Biases of Biologists

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Dr. J

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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Dmitri Karamazov Is an Idiot

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Dr. J

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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Socialism is the Atheistic Question

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Dr. J

This week we will pass the 19,000-page mark in the Great Books Project. We are a mere one month shy of our halfway point since our beginning in January 2011. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers … Continue reading →

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