Join us for this year’s exploration of the Great Books. Each year community members come together to engage in lively and rigorous dialogue using excerpts from the Great Books. Aspen Institute senior moderator Pete Thigpen will moderate this year’s series. Pete has been a Senior Fellow and Moderator for the Aspen Institute since 1989 as well as a lecturer at the Haas School of Business, and is on the board of a number of business and nonprofit organizations.
Fee (includes readings): $150 ($130 for Institute Donors).
Session 1
Dewey, Habits & Will
Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Session 2
Mill, On Liberty
Midgley, Trying Out One’s New Sword
Session 3
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Oliver, West Wind #2, The Summer’s Day
Session 4
Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
Weil, Human Personality
Session 5
Maimonides, On Evil
Lessing, To Room Nineteen
