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THE GREAT IDEAS ONLINE A Syntopical Approach to the Great Books
Maritain/Gilson Summer Institute Dear Max, From Thrusday, 13 July 2000, to Sunday, 16 July 2000, the American Maritian Association, the Maritain Gallery, and the Gilson Society will co-sponsor the first Maritain/Gilson Summer Institute at the Grailville Conference Center in Loveland, Ohio. The general theme of this Institute will be "The Arts of the Beautiful," based upon Etienne Gilson's book of the same name. The purpose of the meeting will be to engage in an intense reading, discussion, and reflection upon many of the issues Gilson examines in this work, such as: the relation of art to knowledge, the relation of science and ethics to art, the difference between industrial and fine arts, beauty in nature and art, properties of the beautiful, aesthetic experience, aesthetic judgment, talent and genius, originality, style, ideal, symbolism, imitation, religious art, being and art, poetry, sacred and abstract art and music, art and truth, and similar topics. The Institute's activities will include a joint reading and seminar and panel discussion of Gilson's text, several papers, and group activities involving the Maritain Gallery. Space will be limited to approximately 20 participants. Anyone interested in presenting a 20 minute paper on a topic related to the general theme should contact me quickly and send me a one paragraph abstract as soon as possible. Anyone interested in being a seminar participant or panel member should also contact me as soon as possible. Cost per person for the Institute will run $275.00 for room (double occupancy), meals, and registration, from Thursday evening until Sunday afternoon. We hope to continue this Institute as an annual event as a means of increasing the exposure of Thomistic thought within American culture.
Peter A. Redpath
MILT ROSENBERG'S "EXTENSION 720"
WGN RADIO - 720AM (9:00 - 11:00pm) If you were doomed to spend the rest of your days alone on a remote desert island what books would you take with you to while away the endless hours? Tonight we challenge our expert panel including, professor Larry Lipking, Great Books advocate Max Weismann and impeachment trial lawyer David Schippers, to discuss the books that would make a solitary existence bearable. A lively discussion of great writing from a distinguished panel of avid readers tonight on Extension 720.
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
SPECIAL SALE! **$595.00** (Regular Price $995.00) Order Online at: http://store.britannica.com/scripts/redirect.asp?item=GBWWMM or by Phone: 1-800-323-1229 Information... Knowledge... Understanding... Wisdom... From the ancient classics to the masterpieces of the 20th century, the Great Books are all the introduction you'll ever need to the ideas, stories and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. This collection of 517 classics in 60 beautifully bound volumes is color-coded into four subject categories: literature, history, philosophy, and science. And since this edition includes works from 20th century authors, it's the most up-to-date collection of the Great Books ever. Product Details Reading and understanding great works by history's outstanding minds has always beenconsidered the substance of a liberal education. The Great Books of the Western World hasbeen acclaimed as the greatest publishing venture of the 20th Century. The set now consists of 60 volumes, with 517 works by 130 authors spanning 30 centuries, on a total of 37,000 pages containing 29 million words. Among the Great Books' 130 authors, 47 are writers of imaginative literature; 29 are masters of mathematics and/or the natural sciences; 28 are historians or social scientists, and 28 or more are philosophers and/or theologians. (This totals 132 because William James and Alfred North Whitehead have made contributions in both of the latter two subject categories). Additionally, the 2-volume SyntopiconŽ lists some 3,020 topics under the 102 Great Ideas and refers you to every significant statement on that topic by the authors in the Great Books. It is as though all 517 works in the Great Books had been read 3,020 times -- each time with a particular question in mind: What do the great authors have to say about this particular topic? Volume Details Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas: GREEN: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, and Poetry
Volume 3 Homer RED: Philosophy and Religion
Volume 6 Plato BLUE: History, Politics, Economics, and Ethics
Volume 5 Herodotus, Thucydides GREY: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Volume 9 Hippocrates, Galen
The Great Ideas Online is published free of charge to its members by the Center. As always, we welcome your comments. We reserve the right to edit all submissions for relevancy and concision and to publish them at our discretion.
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