So the best reason to read a "great book" is that you might learn a lot from it about who you are and what you're supposed to do. In that spirt, I'm reading a variety of great books with two students this semester—Jacob Stubbs and Kristian Canler. The authors include Pascal, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Martin Heidegger, Pierre Manent, Alexandre Kojeve, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
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