Why have I just spent six hundred pounds on a collection of work from the last 2500 years, published by Mortimer Adler in the 1950's?
That's right. This is The Great Books of the Western World. We will read them, dissect them, and try to understand what our greatest thinkers have said and why people are returning to classics education.
Anyone can and should study these works as an antidote to a chaotic world that seems devoid of meaning. We are all more lost than ever, and is it because we turned away from these works, preferring the hard sciences?
Join me on this journey of self study and revelation.
0:00 Introduction
0:20 The Great Books of the Western World
3:34 Goals for Study
4:56 Reading Order
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Links from the Video
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My Reading Order: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRZTk0TIzPzhCRV8gWnidROfgr2R9m-mHGGOlGgR_fZIZ-9rZiSGmToADgJUlK1gGa1nr6rLOov_je3/pubhtml
The Great Books of the Western World: https://thinkingwest.com/encyclopedia-britannicas-great-books-of-the-western-world/
Original 10 Year Reading Plan: https://thinkingwest.com/encyclopedia-britannicas-great-books-of-the-western-world/
The Precipice: https://theprecipice.com
Substack: https://beyondabstinence.substack.com