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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Dec 15, 2019

    Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle

    This last Friday night our Great Books Patio Club met to discuss Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Pictured below is the schematic that I c...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Oct 4, 2019

    What is Life? | Erwin Schrodinger

    If you have ever found yourself wondering why you shouldn't marry your cousin, especially if your grandma was an X-ray technician, or, if...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Sep 19, 2019

    The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels

    This Friday evening I will be hosting another book discussion on my back patio. We will be discussing The Communist Manifesto by Karl Mar...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Aug 27, 2019

    Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville

    Volume 1, Part 1, Chapter 5: Tocqueville describes two kinds of centralization. "Governmental centralization" concerns the "formation of ...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 25, 2019

    The Federalist Papers | 1-10, 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71

    NO. 1 General Introduction (A. Hamilton) Hamilton writes: "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the peo...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 22, 2019

    The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith | Book I, Chapters I - IX

    (1) Smith writes: "In almost every other race of animals each individual, when it is grown up to maturity, is entirely independent, and i...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 17, 2019

    The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon | Chapters 15-16 re Primitive Christianity

    Chapter XV: The Progress of the Christian Religion, and the Sentiments, Manners, Numbers, and Condition, of the primitive Christians (1) ...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The Social Contract by Rousseau

    Book One ​ (1) Rousseau opens the first chapter of this book with this claim: "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains." Reflec...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Concerning Civil Government | Second Treatise by Locke

    Chapter Two: Of the State of Nature ​ (1) Locke opens this chapter as follows: "To understand political power right, and derive from its ...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Hamlet by Shakespeare

    (1) Hamlet says to Gertrude, "I must be cruel, only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind" (Act 3, Scene 4).  Does this ne...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Essays by Montaigne

    Book One: Chapter 7: That Our Actions Should be Judged by our Intentions ​ (1) Why must restitution be distressing, inconvenient, and "fe...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais

    (1) Consider the closing remarks of Rabelais in Pantagruel. Do you find yourself agreeing with those critics that accused Rabelais of foo...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The Prince by Machiavelli

    (1) Machiavelli offers us this description of a wise prince: "...a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The Confessions by Saint Augustine

    Book One ​ (1) Consider Augustine's poignant opening paragraph: "Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty? How magnificent his stre...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The New Testament | Acts

    Compare the classically idealized state of a norm-minded and stratified community to the community experienced in the early church as des...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The New Testament | Matthew

    Compare kingdoms as they are conceived by men (ex. Plato's Republic and Laws, Aristotle's Politics) versus the kingdom of God ruled by a ...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch

    What is the fate (or destiny) of those who seek absolute power?

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Politics by Aristotle

    (1) I find Aristotle's comments on currency in section nine of book one to serve as a relevant (and perhaps prophetic) critique of the Un...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle

    (1) Is the human good the pursuit of happiness? What is happiness? (2) Aristotle writes, "...while both are dear, piety requires us to ho...

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    Andrew Elizalde
    • Jul 15, 2019

    The Republic by Plato

    Note sections 376-377 on teaching the young first through storytelling (mythos). This may be as critical a component of classical pedagog...

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