reading schedule?

[Ali]

Hello Folks:

Just joined the group. Would like to know if there's a reading schedule. Afraid I didn't see one.
Or can we suggest a title or two of our own and see if anyone would be interested to read and discuss?

Thanks

[Ipsa]

i don't think there is one, but I'd love some suggestions too!

[Ali]

Ipsa wrote: "i don't think there is one, but I'd love some suggestions too!"

Thanks, Ipsa. I'd like to read some Kierkegaard, especially since you have Fear and Trembling mentioned as one of your favourites. Apart from him, Walter Kaufman's works on Existentialism and Religion (Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, Religion from Tolstoy to Camus) and Charles Taylor's A Secular Age are of particular interest to me.

Open to other suggestions too.

[Xan]

I have just started Taylor's Secular Age and would like the company. It's an investment in time, though. Taylor's work is no quick read.

[Ali]

Xan Shadowflutter wrote: "I have just started Taylor's Secular Age and would like the company. It's an investment in time, though. Taylor's work is no quick read."

Brilliant! Yes, Taylor's work certainly requires discussion and cross-examination. That's why I wanted to read it in company.

Where are you in it now, Xan? I can start with a bit tonight.

[Xan]

I just started, Ali. first chapter.

[Ali]

Xan Shadowflutter wrote: "I just started, Ali. first chapter."

Just finished reading the Introduction, which was at times enjoyably challenging, and at times a little too challenging to be enjoyable.
But interesting nevertheless.

Liked his mention of secularity as a new set of conditions within which both "believers" and "non-believers" operate, rather than it just being about whether one has faith or not.
He situates this new conditions to be the effect of humanism.

"My claim will rather be something of this nature: secularity 3 (as I've described above) came to be along with the possibility of exclusive humanism, which thus for the first time widened the range of possible options, ending the era of 'naïve' religious faith" (19).

Should we put out an invitation of sorts to other readers and set something like a schedule?

[Xan]

Ali,

I don't know how to put out an invitation as a member, other than to open a Secular Age thread and invite anyone who happens to look. The schedule should go there to, imo. As to a schedule itself, do we read and comment daily or weekly> How much can you read in a week or a day? When I read philosophy, I find myself rereading and taking notes, and my progress can be glacial. Sorry.

[Ali]

That's perhaps how it should be, Xan. Glacial.
I can't help but read slowly myself, so no apology needed.
We can set it up to be weekly.
How about 40 pages?
That should be the right amount of challenging, I think.
And since we're setting it up, we can put out the thread guidelines to be according to that.

[Xan]

Works for me. 40 per week. When do you want to start?

[Ali]

Xan Shadowflutter wrote: "Works for me. 40 per week. When do you want to start?"

Let's start now. So, we'll discuss the first 40 pages of chapter 1 - The Bulwarks of Belief - on Friday, the 3rd of April.
Friday can be our campsite that we return to every week

[Nox]

I do have one, it is flexible though. I read works of old greek Philosophers from pre-Socratics to Socrates and Aristotle currently, then some Books about history of Philosophy, then of course countless other subjects of course, and even classical novels or dramatic masterworks - I enjoy all of it very much.