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The Great Books Reading & Discussion Program
About Us
We are a small, but serious group of thoughtful readers of classical literature. You can find us at Great Books Discussion Group - Bloomingdale (Bloomingdale, IL) | Meetup. We are working our way through the 1985 Series published by the Great Books Foundation. We have years of reading to go. All of our meetings are videoconference (because our membership is international), and we are always interested in expanding our group.
Sources
We use the Shared Inquiry approach from The Great Books Foundation. Here is a link to the approach: https://www.greatbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Shared-Inquiry-Handbook.pdf
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However, we have developed and use our own discussion questions.
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Here is the Great Books Foundation's website: The Great Books Foundation — Inspiring ideas, dialogue, and lives
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Our readings for 2023:
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Shakespeare: Othello
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Hume: Of Justice and Injustice
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Tocqueville: The Power of the Majority
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Simmel: Individual Freedom
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Sophocles: Antigone
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Plato: The Crito
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Dewey: The Virtues
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Euripedes: Iphigeneia at Aulis
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Aristotle: Politics
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Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground
The posts below show the discussion questions that we have developed (to date) for each of our readings.
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