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What is The Great Conversation?

6/13/2012

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Well for one thing it is the title of a book by Robert M. Hutchins. The book was published in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica as Volume One in the Great Books of the Western World series.


The complete title is: The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal education.
Another definition: The Great Conversation is the name given to the exchange of ideas that has been  going on for thousands of years now. The ideas have to do with God, our world,  relationships, truth, knowledge, existence, hope, dispair, purpose - in short,  who we are and why we live.

There may be better definitions of what The Great Conversation means to us today, we will have to keep looking.

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The Two Drovers

6/9/2012

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The Two Drovers - a short story by Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832. Basically a cowboy storie that takes place on the border between England and Scotland. The language is a little rough for me so I should take time to study the words and then read it again if I want to master this tail.

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EB Work Today

5/31/2012

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Spent part of the day building Word files from EB articles. Built about 42 word files so far each with around 18 articles so that equals somewhere around 750 articles.

I copy the articles from my electronic EB and past them into Word then run a macro that I wrote to elimate the bad data from the file. Then you can run the file through textaloud or send the Word file to @kindle and read it there.

Blackwell - borenius  pages 265 -384 or 119 pages.
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What is Gateway to the Great Books?

5/30/2012

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Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set was designed as an introduction to the Great Books of the Western World, published by the same organization and editors in 1952. The set included selections – short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works – by more than one hundred authors. The selections were generally shorter and in some ways simpler than the full-length books included in the Great Books.


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What are the Great Books?

5/30/2012

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Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the Great Books in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes.


The project got its start at the University of Chicago.
University president Robert Hutchins collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course, generally aimed at businessmen, for the purpose of filling in gaps in education, to make one more well-rounded and familiar with the "Great Books" and ideas of the past three millennia.


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    The Great Conversation

    My blog about reading:
    1) Encyclopedia Britannica,
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    The Gateway to the Great Books,
    3) The Great Books of the Western World.

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