Great Books of the Western World (54 Volumes)
by Robert Maynard Hutchins
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This was for volume one only: The Great Conversation - The substance of a Liberal Education
I could not find an individual volume listing and the printed ISBN brought up a separate work.
Volume one makes a convincing argument for self-education.
The total collection comprises the 443 works of 73 authors.
Two of the volumes contain 102 chapters containing "The Great Ideas".
Appendix 2 gives a suggested reading list to span a 10 year period.
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I could not find an individual volume listing and the printed ISBN brought up a separate work.
Volume one makes a convincing argument for self-education.
The total collection comprises the 443 works of 73 authors.
Two of the volumes contain 102 chapters containing "The Great Ideas".
Appendix 2 gives a suggested reading list to span a 10 year period.
Of the Great Books...more
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Read in October, 2008
This was only the first volume, The Great Conversation.
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Read in June, 2008
Actually, I only own Vol. 5: Aeschylus/Sophocles/Euripides/Aristophanes, and out of that, I'm just reading a couple of Euripides' plays right now.
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Read in January, 1986
recommends it for:
very smart people
The two-volume Great Ideas/Syntopicon is an unprecedented attempt to analyse all of philosophy.
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