Western Classics

About This Study Group

Western Classics is committed to the laborious, necessary, and not-entirely-sane endeavor of retracing the genealogy of Western thought from Plato to the present on the theory that you cannot see where you are standing until you have found the floor; and the giants’ backs upon which we stand today are far too tall for us to see the ground. If we cannot think critically about how we think, perhaps, then we are nothing more than the system’s raw material, meant for processing its own ends on its own behalf. Okay, probably something more than that, but definitely at least that.

Current Assignment

The New Testament

The New Testament

Richmond Lattimore

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • Romans
  • 1 Corinthians

Past Assignments

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Syllabus: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jy-mFf4A6jh8idTtM4goI18SzXRL5KUurDXd-CiW6Hk/edit?usp=drive_link