So I have broken my month-odd silence. For a while, I considered taking this blog down because it really wasn't performing any useful function and the questions I pose here tend to border on the absurd. Granted, what do you expect from a freshman Johnnie? Even so, I would prefer something more intelligent. And so I will begin posting again, but the posts may be different, they may not mark every book I read, and they may be few and far between. That's okay.
To begin, Annapolis doesn't read De Anima (the inspiration for all my side-blogs) sophmore year and this is driving me insane. How could the two programs of study be so different in that respect? They read Solon and Lycurgus and we don't. Big deal. But this is Aristotle we're talking about, and it's high-quality Aristotle! How could they not align the years better?
I'm not picky. I'd be cool reading De Anima this year. I'd also be down with reading it next year, but I want to read it in seminar sometime!
I will do what I can; I'll read it multiple times over the summer and very carefully too (this brings the number of books to read to four) in addition to Thucydides, Gorgias, and Nicomachean Ethics.
I have the Sachs translation which is very good, so I'm all set.
K. Time for some Physics reading. Toodles.
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