Benjamin McEvoy | The Great Books of the Western World: Bookshelf Tour @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 the Great Books of the Western World
0:30 Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book
1:10 recommendation for sourcing a set
2:00 the value of a deep-reading program
4:00 the great conversation
5:00 the areas I’m excited to explore
6:30 showing you the colour-coded set
7:15 Melville’s Moby Dick
8:00 Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare
8:40 Aristotle, Gibbon, Aquinas
9:00 Cervantes’ Don Quixote
9:20 Milton, Pascal, Darwin, Homer
10:00 the translators of the set
10:30 Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound
11:00 how to read the great books
12:20 speed-reading vs slow-reading
13:20 taking a long-term approach
14:00 the benefit of a curated program
14:30 the works of science I’m reading
15:20 the illustrations in Darwin
15:30 who made it into the great books?
16:00 my scriptural reading approach