book collection

Why are you reposting this?

>>9801626

Only got 3-4 answers last time, I wanna hear more people's opinion

>>9801648
Did you get my comment regarding the problem with their translations and notation?

>>9801657
Oh that was you, yeah I did and Ive read similar criticism on review sites. Thanks for that. Some of these books can be read without notations but you're saying I'll get much more out of say Plutarch if it is given context and a scholar's interpretation?

What I did like about the collection are the first 3 volumes, which are the actual body of work of Adler and co. during those years preceding the publication. It's basically over 3000 topics divided into 102 general ideas (War and peace, Mind, Nature, history, Liberty, Eternity, etc..). Each idea gets an introductory chapter that traces how the perception of that idea has changed over 30 centuries, who said what, when and in relation to who, based on what previous conclusions. So in a way, the first two books can perhaps be seen as notation grouped in themes.

>>9801715
>. Some of these books can be read without notations but you're saying I'll get much more out of say Plutarch if it is given context and a scholar's interpretation?

Its more the context than a scholars interpretation. For instance with a the Greek works they will be making references to tons of Gods and specific individuals, religious practices, places and events which were effectively assumed knowledge for that time.

Accordingly you have to either plow through and ignore this aspect or have to break your flow by constantly putting the book down to google things.

For Plutarch scim parts of this and take a look a the kind of information they have in the footnotes and see if this is the kind of information you think would be beneficial or necessary.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html (not the same translation I know)

As for restoring them given how cheap they are would it not make more sense just to buy new ones to replace the particularly ratty?

>What I did like about the collection are the first 3 volumes, which are the actual body of work of Adler and co. during those years preceding the publication. It's basically over 3000 topics divided into 102 general ideas

Have you found them helpful?

>there's more Aquinas than Shakespeare
My keks.

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>>9801838
Aquinas wrote more than Shakespeare, why is that funny?

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>>9801824
I guess googling things as I read along will be necessary for some works. The notation don't seem to be that important to the general idea of the text, at least in the case of the link you posted.
I can't read Shakespeare without an annotated version or a "No Fear Shakespeare translation" though.

Yeah Ive found the reading guide organized by topic in chronological order pretty interesting. Im a student so its perfect for research and references. It seems this collection wasnt made to be read cover to cover but, although more power to you if you do, but as a collection of ideas organized and ready to be accessed.

>>9801838
Theres 2 books dedicated to Aquinas, same as Shakespeare. One of the Aquinas is just slightly bigger but the selection of Shakespeare works is pretty extensive, pic related.

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>>9801966
and the last part

>>9801838
Also Mortimer Adler had a huge hard on for Christian Theologians, Aquinas being one of the big daddies Im not surprised he included so much of him. He seemed to be relatively secular in his work but he would be right to say that Christian theology was a major influence in the western world.

>>9801824
This is great information, I've been meaning to start a thread on Plutarch because I want to read his Parallel Lives but I still have a lot of reading to do before I can get into him. What would you generally recommend as a reading list for this. I'm mostly done with the Greeks flowchart but still have to read Anabasis and Plato. I've also read the Aeneid but I'm sure there will be loads of other Roman author's I have to get through.

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>>9802000
Adler was received into the Catholic Church late in life.

>http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/hudson/06330.html