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Episodes: 93
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In this podcast we discuss the European literary canon and the history, culture, philosophy, art, and science that surrounds it.
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Discussing "Medea" By Euripides With Evan
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Discussing "Mozart On The Way To Prague" By Eduard Mörike
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May 15, 2026 |
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Discussing Petrarch's "Scattered Rhymes"
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May 09, 2026 |
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Discussing Max Planck's "Where Is Science Going?"
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Discussing "Novum Organum" By Francis Bacon
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Discussing The Oresteia – Part III: Eumenides – By Aeschylus With Evan
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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How To Actually Learn Any Language
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Discussing "The Life Of Saint Louis" By Jean De Joinville
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Discussing The Fragments Of Heraclitus
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Discussing The Oresteia – Part II: The Libation Bearers – By Aeschylus With Evan
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Discussing "The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy" By Jacob Burckhardt
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Colleges Are Abandoning the Classics — Down 70% Since 2008
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Discussing "The Revolt Of The Masses" By Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Discussing The Oresteia – Part I: Agamemnon – By Aeschylus With Evan
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Discussing "The Protestant Ethic And The Spirit Of Capitalism" By Max Weber
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Bookstore Talk: Exploring Frankenstein And The World In Which Mary Shelley Created A Monster
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Discussing "The Spirit Of The Laws" By Montesquieu
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Discussing "Fathers And Sons" By Ivan Turgenev
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Discussing "We" By Yevgeny Zamyatin
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May 10, 2025 |
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Discussing "The New Science" By Giambattista Vico – Part II
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Discussing "The New Science" By Giambattista Vico – Part I
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Discussing "The Devil's Dictionary" By Ambrose Bierce
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Discussing "The Last Man" By Mary Shelley
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Mendacious Impressions – An Original Short Story
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Discussing "Statesman" By Plato
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Discussing "Sophist" By Plato
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Discussing "Theaetetus" By Plato
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Discussing "Cratylus" By Plato
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Discussing "Phaedo," Or "On The Soul," By Plato
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Discussing "Crito" By Plato
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Discussing "Apology" By Plato
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Discussing "Euthyphro" By Plato
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Discussing "Growth Of The Soil" By Knut Hamsun
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Beautiful And Damned" By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Discussing "Don Quixote" By Miguel De Cervantes
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Discussing Books, Childbirth, And Stories To Read My Daughter
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Discussing Volume II Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Discussing Volume I Of "The Decline Of The West" By Oswald Spengler
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Discussing Volume III Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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May 27, 2024 |
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Discussing Volume II Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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May 19, 2024 |
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Discussing Volume I Of "The Gulag Archipelago" By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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May 10, 2024 |
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Discussing "Vanity Fair" By William Makepeace Thackeray
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May 04, 2024 |
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Discussing Selected Writings By George Orwell
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Foundations Of Arithmetic" By Gottlob Frege
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" By Laurence Sterne
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Discussing "Motley Stones" By Adalbert Stifter
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Discussing "Science And Method" By Henri Poincare
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Value Of Science" By Henri Poincare
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Discussing "Science And Hypothesis" By Henri Poincare
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Discussing "Notes From Underground" By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Discussing "Physics And Philosophy" By Werner Heisenberg
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Discussing "What Is Art?" By Leo Tolstoy
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Country Of The Blind And Other Stories" By H.G. Wells
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Discussing Selected Writings By Jonathan Swift
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Discussing "Chrestomathy" By Henry Louis Mencken
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Discussing "The Rider On The White Horse" By Theodor Storm
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Discussing "Ninety-Three" By Victor Hugo
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Discussing Essays By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Discussing Poetry And Letters By John Keats
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Chronicles" By Jean Froissart
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Discussing "Martin Eden" By Jack London
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Discussing "Under Western Eyes" By Joseph Conrad
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Discussing "Parzival" By Wolfram Von Eschenbach
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Canterbury Tales" By Geoffrey Chaucer
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Annals" By Tacitus
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Discussing "First Principles" By Herbert Spencer
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Discussing "Tess Of The d'Urbervilles" By Thomas Hardy
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Discussing "The House Of The Seven Gables" By Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Discussing "Njal's Saga"
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Decameron" By Giovanni Boccaccio
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Discussing "Dead Souls" By Nikolai Gogol
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Discussing "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History" By Thomas Carlyle
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Discussing "Of Plymouth Plantation" By William Bradford
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Origins And Deeds Of The Goths" By Jordanes
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Prince" By Niccolo Machiavelli
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Discussing "In Praise Of Folly" And "Against War" By Desiderius Erasmus
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Divine Comedy" By Dante Alighieri
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Imaginary Cuckold," "The Bungler," "Don Juan," And Other Plays By Moliere
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Discussing "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight"
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Discussing "A Journal Of The Plague Year" By Daniel Defoe
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Discussing "On The Aesthetic Education Of Man" By Friedrich Schiller
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Notebooks Of Malte Laurids Brigge" By Rainer Maria Rilke
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May 26, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Red And The Black" By Stendhal
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May 19, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Consolation Of Philosophy" By Boethius
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May 12, 2023 |
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Discussing "Self-Reliance," "Heroism," "The American Scholar," And Other Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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May 02, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Song Of Roland"
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Discussing "Discourse on Method" by Rene Descartes
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Discussing "The History Of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia" by Samuel Johnson
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Discussing "Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" by Edmund Burke
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Discussing "Outlines Of Pyrrhonism" By Sextus Empiricus
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Discussing "The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing" By John Milton
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Discussing "On Crimes And Punishments" By Cesare Beccaria
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Discussing "Rameau's Nephew" By Denis Diderot
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Feb 24, 2023 |