Great Books of the Western World
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- What are "the Great Books of the Western World" and what is "Great Books education?" Join me in a conversation with Steve James to find out:
00:00 - History of the Great Books series
02:41 - Popularity of the Great Books beyond the universities
05:12 - Why read old books?
06:59 - A tour of the books in the series
12:02 - Ideal reading order
18:40 - Why a discussion circle?
22:05 - Growing reading capacity
23:38 - Skills of analysis and discussion
26:49 - Becoming well read
30:42 - The benefit of an expert teacher
32:00 - Uncovering in the roots of the Western intellectual tradition
35:41 - How to join the discussion circle
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Wonderful introduction to the Great Books. I’m working at a snail’s pace, scattershot and largely on my own through the Great Books as I’m a homeschooling mom to young children and am in a busy season of life. It would be wonderful to be a part of a discussion group with others, until I’m able to do so I’ll have to take solace that I can at least peer through the keyhole into the Great Conversation. This year was Milton, Tolstoy, Hugo, Dickens, Eliot, Plutarch, Suetonius, the Church Fathers, the King James and more - what an intellectual feast this life can be.
Thank you for sharing. Your snail's pace sounds rather fast if you read substantial portions of all of those authors this year! I should have mentioned in the video that Great Books have always been popular among homeschoolers as well.
It was a pleasure discussing the Great Books with you @ProfASAr!
The please was mine, Steve, thank you.
Thank you for sharing
You are very welcome.
Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing
You are very welcome.
Great discussion!
Thank you kindly.
Thank you for sharing. Would be interesting to tack this into the end of a self learning homeschooling curriculum booklist like the Robinson Curriculum. In the process of thinking out a homeschooling curriculum and this was great for ideas. Thank you Alexander
You are very welcome.
Thankfully there are other undergraduate colleges that use a Great Books curriculum such as Wyoming Catholic College and Thomas Aquinas College. Memoria College offers an online MA in the Great Books.
Indeed, I wish I had mentioned in the video that Great Books programs are prominent in a number of Catholic institutions.
I have enclosed a few pictures of my library. Until recently my shelves held over 2k volumes. I winnowed that down as you can see. In my retirement (since 2011)
I have the goal, first to do the 10 year program, any a bit of current literature. I also have been through all of the Durant’s works. I use the Syntopicon for subject matter guidance. The Great Conversation series is a shorter selection of the GBWW, highly recommended. For the Middle Ages I recommend Charles Oman’s works.
Thank you sharing your own experience with this kind of project, and thank you for the recommendations.
Also there is an updated set from 1990 which has pros and cons.
What pros?
Hello professor, I am trying to improve my English (my native language is Turkish) but Assimilin books are not available for Turkey, or rather I couldn't find them, what do you recommend me to do?
I am sorry, I don't know of a Turkish substitute for them.
@@ProfASArThank you sir
I find it curious the degree to which Great Books programs tend to ignore late antiquity and the middle ages. Why not include Patristic texts beyond Augustine such as Origen's "On First Principles," Gregory of Nyssa's "Life of Moses", Ps.-Dionysius the Arepagite's "Divine Names." It is fashionable as well to ignore Arabic sources from the middle ages. Ibn Sina (Avicenna), as the historian Peter Adamson has argued, is likely the most influential Western philosopher since Aristotle yet he is rarely read outside of Muslim circles.
Thank you for commenting and seconding my own observations on this matter. Have you looked at my "expanded" lists on my website or seen my other videos on this topic? There are certainly gaps and omissions, as well as some arguably questionable inclusions, in collections such as Adler's set or any other core curriculum. Still, having a core set is a necessary base, and those educated in it can then delve into other works of this caliber after having gone through the base.
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Вы правы!
First
You were indeed.