Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group

Videos from Retrospective of Mortimer J Adler's 1953-54 Television Series, The Great Ideas.
Reading selections from Great ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought and Great Treasury of Western
Thought are available at
http://home.comcast.net/~pamjhansen/site/?/page/Resources/

&PHPSESSID=5360a92334e01e7e6e2e24118c919d02

or from Brian through e-mail or fax.
(As of: April 08, 2010)

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Feb. 14, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 566-583 (reading and discussion) Moral Law, Moral Freedom and Conscience

Feb. 28, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 778-790 (reading and discussion) Economics: Property

Mar 13, 2012 - Great Books, Vol 2, pp 345 -352 (reading and discussion)

The Idea of Dialectic from the Syntopicon or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 153-160

Mar. 27, 2012 - Great Books, Vol 2, pp 835-842 (reading and discussion)

The Idea of Judgment from the Syntopicon or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 371-379

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Apr 10, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 948-957 (reading and discussion)  The Conditions of Peace

Apr 24, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 868-875 (reading and discussion) Law and Justice: Rights – Natural and Civil

May 08, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 294-303, 303-307 (reading, discussion) Pity and Envy, Greed and Avarice, Pride and Humility

May 22, 2012 - Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1410-1430 (reading and discussion  Heaven and Hell

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