06-16-2015, 06:53 PM
(06-16-2015, 10:56 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote:(06-16-2015, 12:11 AM)Samsarilian Wrote:My answer to your last question only I one could think for the 20th century is Ayn Rand. I read mostly for fun but a book like hers does more.(06-15-2015, 12:42 PM)jsgrimm45 Wrote: Was watching season one and Monroe is reading the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire the King was reading the Raise and Fall of the Roman Empire is there something we should note in this?
both are educated men who are interested in politics and human reactions. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the books of the Great Conversation, a group of books that are supposed to express and contain the changing ideals of humanity.
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I keep promising myself I will read them, from Plato's 3 that are in it to the ones being added from the early 1900's. The rule has always been you had to wait a hundred years after the author died to add the book to the Conversation and people had to still believe it had relevance. I wander who of our writers will make it...
I could add two more, Tolkien and Heinlein. You would have to actually read them not watch a movie interpretation but they discussed deeper issues. Need V. Greed, Sexuality, Mores and Social context. What is a marriage, what is love, what is the human condition basically. Starship Troopers pushed Heinlein to quit writing kids books because his publisher rejected it due to the themes he wanted to discuss. It examined what is duty, and when is it due, it also took a look at what is love. You really have to pay attention to the flash backs to school and those discussions.
If I had something important to say, I would have mumbled it.