Syntopical Reading, Great Ideas & The Great Conversation @ Comprehensivist Weds
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What is Syntopical Reading & how can it transform your reading?
Lessons from How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
See: https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/0671212095/
Here is a detailed presentation on How to Read a Book: https://youtu.be/bLyf05pbKuE
What is the Great Conversation? What is the Syntopicon? Why is it the most effective way of acquiring a Liberal Education through Self Study?
Lessons from Great Ideas: a Lexicon of Western Thought by Mortimer Adler
See: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Ideas-Lexicon-Western-Thought/dp/0025005731/
Here is an overview of Great Ideas and a presentation on the idea of Honor: https://youtu.be/90wEruDsMro
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7
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