Growing in knowledge one book at a time.
By Karl Schudt, Seminar Host Notre Dame caught fire this week. It took a while for it to hit me, but it hit me hard. I’ve never been there, but I have rattled around a few cathedrals in Germany. I like to climb the towers, if they’ll let me. Why did it bother me? It’s […]
By John Syc “Denied, not committed to the field of human resources.” This was the feedback I received after an interview for a coveted internship at a Fortune 10 company about 15 years ago. I protested. I laid out the commitment by reiterating my graduate studies, my other internships, my leadership roles…how dare they say […]
By Katie King I’ve been in a workshop setting before, so I know that’s not the issue. In fact, I loved it. In writing classes in college, we’d sit in a round table, never more than 20 of us, and discuss short stories, poetry, rhetorical theories, fantastical fiction, you name it. The artifacts we’d pick […]
By Gil Guillory First, a quick restatement of Socrates’ argument found on 474-475 in Gorgias: Good and admirable are not the same. Bad and shameful are not the same. Whatever is admirable is admirable because it causes pleasure or benefit, or both. Whatever is […]
By Danny Knesek The author of this piece is an OGB member in addition to being Director of Rhythm Design Co. This blog post was originally posted to his website. At some point, everybody in marketing deals with the problem of having their campaigns not produce any results. Great marketers come up with the catchiest and […]
By Sal A. OGB Member John Syc calls this, “a level of thinking and consideration that seems to get to the heart of the matter instead of focusing on the noise.” He also notes that this kind of thinking usually draws upon a well-thought out belief system and understanding of multiple disciplines/ideologues. But how can we […]
By Karl Schudt, Seminar Host At Online Great Books, we are on a mission. We believe that: All people need to be strong. Strong of mind and body. Becoming strong in any way requires dedicated, sustained work. The gradual work of building strength requires resistance. At Online Great Books, that resistance comes in […]
By Chris Moultrie And all ranks of Achaeans cried out in their assent: “Respect the priest, accept the shining ransom!” But it brought no joy to the heart of Agamemnon. ¹ In The Iliad, Agamemnon ignores the words of his friends, advisors, and subjugates which brings massive destruction down upon his army. The god Apollo […]
By Michael LeCompte The process by which our bodies continue to go on living every day is not one of consistency. The matter that composes your body, the stuff that makes you up, is constantly renewed. In fact, just about everything your body is made of—the trillions of cells that come together to make you […]
Intellectual Linear Progression or Online Great Books? By Karl Schudt, Seminar Host You may have seen mention around here of an intellectual linear progression. It’s still the name on our Facebook page. In fact, it was the original name of the whole thing, until we decided that Online Great Books was easier to understand. It’s […]