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Tag Archives: Montaigne
Back to Cloud Cuckoo Land
Another month has been lost as a result of my extensive travels, but I continue pressing forward with the Great Books Project. The next round of readings includes a Shakespeare favorite, so there is no excuse to stop now! Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Edward Gibbon, Montaigne, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, William James
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Many a True Word Hath Been Spoken in Jest
I’ve been putting off for some time, but the time has finally come to dig into Plato’s Laws. It will be a heavy week with that, Aquinas, and James, but Aristophanes will lighten things up a bit. Here are the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, John Milton, Montaigne, William James, William Shakespeare
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William James Argues for the Soul
This week in the Great Books Project we return to the wisdom of the Stoics after a lengthy hiatus. It’s time to begin Book II of Epictetus’s Discourses. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, Plato, William James
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Humans are Bundles of Habits
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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Tagged Blaise Pascal, Edwrd Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, William James
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Constantine’s Conversion Was Real
This week we come within a hair of 20,000 pages in the Great Books Project. Let’s get right to it. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Book X (GBWW Vol. … Continue reading
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Tagged Edwad Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne, Plato, William James
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Dmitri Karamazov Puts His Foot in It
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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Tagged Blaise Pascal, Edward Gibbon, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, William James
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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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Tagged Blaise Pascal, C.H. Waddington, fyodor dostoevsky, John Milton, Montaigne, Thomas Aquinas
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