The Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Thursday, Sep 22, 2022  3pm - 4:30pm

Location

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Details

This Week's Reading: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 2, pp -179-186: The Idea of Chance from the Syntopicon (or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 75-82)

About the Great Ideas Reading and Discussion Group
- 3-4:30 pm
- Select Thursdays throughout the fall
- Unquiet Study Room on the second floor of the Library
- No registration required

Participants will be asked to complete a brief reading and then join us once every two weeks to discuss readings from "Great Books of the Western World," compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher. Some of the topics will include chance, religion and history.

The sessions will be lead by community member Brian Hansen. The schedule and readings can be found below or download a Word doc on the presenter's website: https://great-ideas-group.weebly.com/schedules.html

Upcoming dates:
- Sept. 29: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1210-1218: Chance
- Oct. 20: The Great Books of the Western World Vol 2, pp 711-718: The Idea of History from the Syntopicon
or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 307-315
- Oct. 27: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 956-968: History: The Record of Events
- Nov. 10: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 212-220: The Idea of Hate from the Syntopicon
- Dec. 1: The Great Books of the Western World, Vol 3, pp 588-597: The Idea of Religion from the Syntopicon
or Mortimer Adler’s Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought, pp 722-733
- Dec. 15: Great Treasury of Western Thought, pp 1268-1300: The Distinguishing Features of Religion, Judaism, Christianity