Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Nashville Great Books Reading Schedule for 2016
Nashville Great Books Reading Schedule for 2016
January 5 – William James: Habit
January 12- Gogol: The Overcoat
January 19 – Aristotle: On Happiness
January 26 – John Dewey: Habits and Will
February 2 – Mary Lavin: Happiness
February 9 – Plato: Crito
February 16 – J.S. Mill: On Liberty
February 23 – Kant: On Conscience
March 1 – Kafka: A Hunger Artist
March 8 – Locke: Of the Limits of Government
March 15 – Sophocles: Antigone
March 22 – Tocqueville: Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare
March 29 – Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
April 5 – Delmore Schwartz: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
April 12 – Chekhov: Rothschild’s Fiddle
April 19 – Aristotle: On Happiness
April 26 – Plato: The Apology
May 3 – Plato: The Apology
May 10 – Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1)
May 17 - Conrad: Heart of Darkness (2)
May 24 – Conrad: Heart of Darkness (3)
May 31 – Kant: Conscience
June 7 – Marx: Alienated Labor
June 14 - The Old Testament: Genesis (1)
June 21 - The Old Testament: Genesis (2)
June 28 – The Old Testament: Genesis (3)
July 5 – The Old Testament: Genesis (4)
July 12 – The Old Testament: Genesis (5)
July 19 – Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (1)
July 26 – Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (2)
August 2 – Rousseau: the Social Contract (1)
August 9 – Rousseau: the Social Contract (2)
August 16 – Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man (1)
August 23 – Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man (2)
August 30 – Shakespeare; Othello (Act 1)
September 5 - Shakespeare: Othello (Act 2)
September 6 - Shakespeare: Othello (Act 2)
September 13 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 3)
September 20 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 4)
September 27 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 5)
October 4 – Hume: Justice (Natural or Artificial)
October 11 – Hume: Of Justice (Nature and Wealth)
October 18 – Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Public Opinion)
October 25 _ Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Law and Aristocracy)
November 1 – Simmel: Individual Freedom (Economic Freedom)
November 8 – Simmel: Individual Freedom (The Psychology of Freedom)
November 15 – Sophocles: Antigone (Freedom or Fate)
November 22 – Sophocles: Antigone (Creon and the Preacher
November 29 – Plato: Crito
December 6 – Plato: Meno – What is Virtue?
December 13 – Plato: Meno – Knowledge and Virtue
January 5 – William James: Habit
January 12- Gogol: The Overcoat
January 19 – Aristotle: On Happiness
January 26 – John Dewey: Habits and Will
February 2 – Mary Lavin: Happiness
February 9 – Plato: Crito
February 16 – J.S. Mill: On Liberty
February 23 – Kant: On Conscience
March 1 – Kafka: A Hunger Artist
March 8 – Locke: Of the Limits of Government
March 15 – Sophocles: Antigone
March 22 – Tocqueville: Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare
March 29 – Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own
April 5 – Delmore Schwartz: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
April 12 – Chekhov: Rothschild’s Fiddle
April 19 – Aristotle: On Happiness
April 26 – Plato: The Apology
May 3 – Plato: The Apology
May 10 – Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1)
May 17 - Conrad: Heart of Darkness (2)
May 24 – Conrad: Heart of Darkness (3)
May 31 – Kant: Conscience
June 7 – Marx: Alienated Labor
June 14 - The Old Testament: Genesis (1)
June 21 - The Old Testament: Genesis (2)
June 28 – The Old Testament: Genesis (3)
July 5 – The Old Testament: Genesis (4)
July 12 – The Old Testament: Genesis (5)
July 19 – Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (1)
July 26 – Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (2)
August 2 – Rousseau: the Social Contract (1)
August 9 – Rousseau: the Social Contract (2)
August 16 – Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man (1)
August 23 – Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man (2)
August 30 – Shakespeare; Othello (Act 1)
September 5 - Shakespeare: Othello (Act 2)
September 6 - Shakespeare: Othello (Act 2)
September 13 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 3)
September 20 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 4)
September 27 – Shakespeare: Othello (Act 5)
October 4 – Hume: Justice (Natural or Artificial)
October 11 – Hume: Of Justice (Nature and Wealth)
October 18 – Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Public Opinion)
October 25 _ Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Law and Aristocracy)
November 1 – Simmel: Individual Freedom (Economic Freedom)
November 8 – Simmel: Individual Freedom (The Psychology of Freedom)
November 15 – Sophocles: Antigone (Freedom or Fate)
November 22 – Sophocles: Antigone (Creon and the Preacher
November 29 – Plato: Crito
December 6 – Plato: Meno – What is Virtue?
December 13 – Plato: Meno – Knowledge and Virtue
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