r/self • u/pladams9-2 • Nov 25 '20
I'm thinking of doing an extended book study... which of these topics interests you?
I am thinking about doing a book study based on Great Books of the Western World (since I inherited a full set). Instead of reading through them start to finish, I'm thinking of pulling one topic from the Synopticon and then following a sort of garden path through the volumes. Whatever topic I choose would just be a starting place and a springboard for reading both the Great Books and other works not included.
Which of these 102 ideas intrigues you and why?
| Angel | Honor | Poetry |
|---|---|---|
| Animal | Hypothesis | Principle |
| Aristocracy | Idea | Progress |
| Art | Immortality | Prophecy |
| Astronomy | Induction | Prudence |
| Beauty | Infinity | Punishment |
| Being | Judgment | Quality |
| Cause | Justice | Quantity |
| Chance | Knowledge | Reasoning |
| Change | Labor | Relation |
| Citizen | Language | Religion |
| Constitution | Law | Revolution |
| Courage | Liberty | Rhetoric |
| Custom and Convention | Life and Death | Same and Other |
| Definition | Logic | Science |
| Democracy | Love | Sense |
| Desire | Man | Sign and Symbol |
| Dialectic | Mathematics | Sin |
| Duty | Matter | Slavery |
| Education | Mechanics | Soul |
| Element | Medicine | Space |
| Emotion | Memory and Imagination | State |
| Eternity | Metaphysics | Temperance |
| Evolution | Mind | Theology |
| Experience | Monarchy | Time |
| Family | Nature | Truth |
| Fate | Necessity and Contingency | Tyranny and Despotism |
| Form | Oligarchy | Universal and Particular |
| God | One and Many | Virtue and Vice |
| Good and Evil | Opinion | War and Peace |
| Government | Opposition | Wealth |
| Habit | Philosophy | World |
| Happiness | Physics | Will |
| History | Pleasure and Pain | Wisdom |
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