Comments on: Feeling Intellectual

By: Laurie Stankavich

Laurie Stankavich — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:51:53 +0000

By the way, my mother might be interested to know that the whole Great Books series that I’m dipping into somehow got to our school from Glendale Sanitarium. At least that’s the stamp. I wonder if it was a direct donation or if they traveled a circuitous route to us?

By: Mike Stankavich

Mike Stankavich — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:32:43 +0000

Ah yes, I think I’d like Locke. I also recently caught a reference to David Hume that interested me. I may go looking for one of his books.

By: Laurie Stankavich

Laurie Stankavich — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:40:16 +0000

I actually started with John Locke last year. I didn’t finish a whole essay, but enjoyed the precision of his logic. That’s one thing I like about writers in the Enlightenment era. They define their arguments in clear and precise language with good analogies. Another writer I’d like to read one of these days is Adam Smith, the economist and another Great Books author.

By: Mike Stankavich

Mike Stankavich — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:41:08 +0000

You know, I’ve been thinking that actually going back to the classics and reading them instead of just reading about them and reading the conclusions others have drawn is a good thing. I’ll have to throw a dart at a great books list one of these days. That, or actually find some current interest and trace its origins back through history.