Do you want to read the Great Books, but you don’t know where to start? This video will help you figure out where to begin reading the Great Books. My focus here is on the great books of the Western Tradition, or the Western World — though there are great books in many traditions from around the world. This is an introduction, a starting place, a point from which you can begin a lifelong journey reading great works of literature and philosophy. It’s a journey that has changed my life, and might just change your life too!
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Full of energy way of speech…great👌
This great book program is so exciting I hope it had a form of online sessions for those who areinterested but are not in Canada..
Just want to throw this comment into the ring. Aspiring scientists should go through Euclid's The Elements! Not the typical book (set of books) though 🙂 but it keeps in line with the Greeks. Thanks for your videos I always enjoy them.
Books mentioned to start your exploration of great books:
Greek tragedy – check out Sophocles
– Antigone
– Oedipus Rex
Philosophy
– Plato's The Apology
Drama
– Marlowe's Dr Faustus
Novels
– Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Politics / slavery
– Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I want to read the dead souls by N Gogol. Also brazilians writers are very good if you find translated to English, Machado De Assis and Graciliano Ramos ohh! Very good writers.
I love your videos 💛💛
I have read the entire core set of the Great Books of the Western World as well as all the Harvard Classics. It took me about 30 years https://youtu.be/AysjFL4I4As