Why THE GREAT BOOKS MATTER

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In this lecture we explain why reading the Great Books matter and how the Great Books are taught in a humanities school setting. The Great Books teach us about love and reveal to us cultural knowledge: emotional and ethical wisdom contained in stories.

0:00-4:27 - Why The Great Books Still Matter
4:27-8:28 - Homer's Iliad
8:28-13:32 - Homer's Odyssey
13:32-19:46 - Dante's Divine Comedy
19:46-22:42 - Ethical and Emotional Wisdom
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).

Видео Why THE GREAT BOOKS MATTER канала Paul Joseph Krause