The Great Books obscure a powerful democratic tradition running through history
ALSO, a story of mine, told from the perspective of one of the men who convicted Socrates
One of the knocks against the Great Books is that they are the records of the winners. These are books that people in power, with lots of resources, chose to propagate and preserve. And since they tend to represent the only remaining record of certain eras, reading the Great Books gives a distorted view of human history, thought, and behavior.
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