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john locke | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Locke says “the king is a thing”. Which we just recently finished reading, the eponymous protagonist declares that “the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing.” John Locke’s. Second Essay Concerning Civil Government. Our most recent read in the Great Books of the Western World reading project. While I’m not sure that Locke had Shakespeare in mind as he wrote, his.
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education | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Liberal education and a free society. In a letter, written in 1813, to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson explains the steps taken by the Virginia legislature after the Declaration of Independance to eradicate the vestiges of the old world aristocracy that had taken hold on the American landscape. Notes on the State of Virginia. Notes on the State of Virginia. Indicates a decidedly wider purview for the ward sch...
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latin america | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. The Beautiful and the Very Beautiful. Liberal education and a free society. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). Man’s law, God’s law (Antigone). Running from fate (Oedipus Rex). Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation Blog. A Great Books Reading Blog. The Argumentative Old Git. Musings of a Christia...
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great books reading project | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Great books reading project. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). It has been a great pleasure to continue to work my way once more through these Greek dramas as part of the Great Books of the Western World reading plan. There is so much here that it is difficult to know where to begin. Aeschylus’s plays, and the. I am reminded here of the arguments of Chesterton in his. Great books reading project.
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Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. Locke’s advice on teaching. Plutarch’s lessons in leadership →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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gabriel garcía márquez | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. The Beautiful and the Very Beautiful. Liberal education and a free society. Child sacrifice and drama (Agamemnon). Man’s law, God’s law (Antigone). Running from fate (Oedipus Rex). Great Books of the Western World. The Great Books Foundation Blog. A Great Books Reading Blog. The Argumentative Old Git. Musings of a Christia...
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fiction | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. July 28, 2015. Book Review: Beloved by Toni Morrison. Is not a bad novel, but it nowhere approaches the greatness of. The Old Man and the Sea. Murder in the Cathedral. I am not only disappointed with the novel itself, however, I am more disappointed that I must be so disappointed. Literature is primarily the study of the universal hu...
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alexander the great | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Plutarch’s lessons in leadership. I have to begin this post by apologizing to all who follow my blog for not blogging regularly over the last few months. This is especially true of neglecting the timetable I set for my reading and blogging about the 10-year reading plan for the Great Books of the Western World. I do, however, have a good excuse! Do you see the same theme in this year’s readings? Later, in ...
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books | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Book Review: Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. Along the way, Steinbeck experiences America through conversations with average Americans of all sorts. His focus throughout the book is largely upon these conversations and the impressions they make upon him as well as the insights they grant him into what makes America and its people unique and what binds them together. December 15, 2015. It was this t...
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Introduction to Western Civilization | David Withun
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. Great Books Reading Project. Shakespeare in a Year. Introduction to Western Civilization. Over the next several months, I will be posting a number of essays, lessons, and primary source selections designed to provide an introductory course in Western Civilization. The posts will appear as regular blog posts and links to each will be collected on a page I have created for this purpose. You can visit that page here. Posted in classical education. Introduction...
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