Ep. 588: The Great Conversation

What are the Great Books? What Is the Great Conversation?
– How was the collection created, criteria
– Syntopical organization vs chronological order
– Mortimer Adler’s List over 500 books, goal: informed participation in a democracy
– shared inquiry model
– How to Read a Book

The Benefits of The Great Conversation
– diversity of ideas and presence of the clash of ideas
– "breaking the script" from parents, school, culture
– disciplines engagement in your own mind, and in the minds of others
– understand where we are now and why
– Many of the idea men behind the design of modern societies have read these books; some of them wrote these books
– understanding where we are now and why: a foundation for a discussion about where we could go
– The Story of Philosophy (Will Durant),
– Leonard Peikof’s collection; through an ideological lens, I was dismissing a lot of people wholesale

Academic Opposition To The Great Books of the Western World
– What do these books still have tell us in the 21st century?
– Diversity of thought discouraged. Postmodern influence
– The Closing of the American Mind 1987

Online Great Books: The Program
– how it started
– how it works
– Building the habit of reading
– good faith interlocutors

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