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SAN DIEGO GREAT BOOKS |
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At the San Diego Public Library mission valley |
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SAN DIEGO Meeting schedule 2020
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AGB-1 (Adult Great Books, First and Second Series) and GC-2 (Great Conversations 6) can be obtained at https://store.greatbooks.org/colleges-book-groups/classic-great-books/adu-01.html and https://store.greatbooks.org/great-conversations-2.html respectively
or by calling the Great Books Foundation at 1-800-222-5870 (Monday- Friday, 8 - 5 Central Standard Time)
or possibly used from Amazon.com . [eBook not recommended]
Please Note: Although no specific text or translation is required, it has helped our discussions when we are all reading from the identical text. |
![Text Box: Sources—Where the preferred text can be found
AGB-1.1 Adult Great Books, First Series, Vol. 1
AGB-1.2 Adult Great Books, First Series, Vol. 2
GC-2 Great Conversations 6
[1] Handout at the previous meeting
BYOT Bring your own text
TBD To be determined](index_image520.gif)
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2020 |
Reading |
Leader |
Source |
What is it? |
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Jan 12 |
Sophocles: Antigone |
Frank |
AGB-1.2 |
Greek Drama |
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Feb 9 |
Rene Descartes: Meditations One and Two (Selection) |
Ann |
GC-2 |
Philosophy |
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Mar 8 |
Book of Genesis (Selection) |
Ralph |
AGB-1.1 |
Bible |
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Apr 5 |
Immanuel Kant: Conscience |
Apurv |
AGB-1.1 |
Philosophy |
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May 17 |
1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Selection) |
Frank |
[1] |
History |
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Jun 21 |
Charles Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals |
Apurv |
AGB-1.2 |
Science |
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Jul 12 |
Edgar Allen Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher |
Paul |
GC-2 |
Short Story |
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Aug |
N o M e e t I n g |
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Sep 13 |
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita |
Ann |
BYOT |
20th C. Novel |
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Oct 11 |
Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita—Second Session |
TBD |
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Nov 8 |
Karl Marx: Alienated Labor |
Ralph |
AGB-1.1 |
Political Philosophy |
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Dec 13 |
John Donne: Poems |
Apurv |
GC-2 |
Poetry |