Last year I excitedly began a scheduled program to re-read the Gateway to the Great Books and the Great Books with this schedule and bombed. As Micheal Finnagan, I will begin again. If I can discipline myself, I hope to catch up withing the year. However, with my writing and mentoring schedule, I may have to be content with simply keeping on schedule. Although the schedule belongs to Dr. J. a Professor at Faulkner University, I intend to post it here on Mondays with my thoughts from the last week's readings. Why, when he has done such a wonderful job on his blogs? Well, I'm obviously a year behind. Plus, I want to be part of the Great Conversation even though at this point in history very few are speaking.
- The Great Conversation by Robert Hutchins
- Gateway to the Great Books Volume 1, “Letter to the Reader” (pp. 1-15) and the “Introduction” (pp. 15-108)
- “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent” by John Erskine (Vol. 10, pp. 5-13)
- “How Should One Read a Book?” by Virginia Woolf (Vol. 5, pp. 5-14)
- “Of the Study of History” by David Hume (Vol. 7, pp. 89-92)
- “The Two Drovers” by Sir Walter Scott (Vol. 2, pp. 182-205)
- “The Three Hermits” by Leo Tolstoy (Vol. 3, pp. 700-706)
- “Mathematics, the Mirror of Civilization” by Lancelot Hogben (Vol. 9, pp. 3-23; originally Chapter 1 of Mathematics for the Million)
