I am a happy little boy. B&N has just notified me that my special-ordered Volume 1 of Plutarch's Moralia has arrived. At some point this week, I just need to drive the 15 miles to pick it up.
I have reached a difficult point in my reading project. Aristotle, whom I read a few years ago, was the first to make me realize I might have to someday modify my plan to read every book ever written, in chronological order. For Aristotle wrote a lot. And I spent a lot of time wading through his works -- though I am glad that I did. How could any thinking human being not want some acquaintance with the man who so profoundly and for so long influenced the mind of the Western World?
And Plutarch wrote a lot, too, I have discovered -- his Moralia is in about 15 volumes. My tiny house has not room for them all, nor my bank account the means to acquire them -- and our pathetic excuse for a public library doesn't have any of his writings at all.
What to do, what to do?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
New Book is here
Posted by Eastcoastdweller at 12:00 PM
Labels: My Insane Reading Project, Plutarch
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Aristotle
NON-CONTRADICTION
EITHER-OR
A IS A
Ayn Rand gave honor to Aristotle, the great thinker, in titling sections of Atlas Shrugged with these references :-)
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