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![]() | Registration now for the 2007-2008 series! You are invited to a Great Books reading and discussion series, where adults meet informally to read, consider, and discuss some of the best books written in the past 2500 years. |
October 18, 2007 |
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| Introduction |
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| Plato | Apology (23 pages) |
November 1, 2007 |
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| Hume | Of Justice and Injustice (21 pages) |
November 15, 2007 |
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| Sophocles | Antigone (41 pages) |
December 6, 2007 |
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| Semmel | Individual Freedom (25 pages) |
| Chekhov | Rothchild's Fiddle (11 pages) |
December 13, 2007 |
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| The Bible | Genesis (34 pages) |
February 7, 2008 |
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| Marx | Alienated Labour (17 pages) |
February 21, 2008 |
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| Conrad | Hear of Darkness (103 pages) |
March 6, 2008 |
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| Freud | Civilization and Its Discontents (26 pages) |
March 20, 2008 |
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| Rousseau | The Social Contract (25 pages) |
April 3, 2008 |
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| Shakespeare | Othello (110 pages) |
April 17, 2008 |
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| Aristotle | On Happiness (23 pages) |
May 1, 2008 |
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| Kant | Conscience (7 pages) |
| Darwin | The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals (33 pages) |
May 15 |
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| Tocqueville | The Power of the Majority (30 pages) |
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