ILP Book Club, First Book!

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Let’s get this rolling!

The first reading assignment is:

Book I of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.

etext.virginia.edu/latin/boethius/boephil.html

Here are the rules:

  1. Read it as soon as you can. Ideally today, but over the next week is fine.

  2. No one can post until Concordant (the person who suggested this text) posts his opening spiel.

The idea behind these rules is to force us to actually think about the text and to let it digest for a while. The idea isn’t to have an off-the-cuff discussion, but rather on that is actually thought out.

See you all sometime next week.

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Sorry I didn’t see this earlier - it’s a great idea because at least we would have some agreed context for our rants
(one of the common probs on ILP and, I suppose, with philosophers in general is that we teand to start arguing about what we are arguing about - so a bit of restriction would be good)-
I’ll try and have a look over the week end - hey mods is there any way this could be made “sticky”

kp

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Hey, no action here ?

Shame, really.

Maybe we could give the green light for other posters to have their say, eh ?

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I was very bad and didn’t read it over the week end! - But i will do - still think this is a great idea!!

kp