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Suddenly, I find myself raging.
What should be included in a canon and what should not? How about the books that have shaped the world...
But there are hundreds... how about the barest minimum
The Bible, the Koran, Socrates' Dialogues, Pythagoras' Geometries, the Odyssey, the Illiad, Machiavelli, Bernouilli, Newton, Leibnitz, it becomes a list of names.
I'm unsatisfied at the IDEA of a Canon because there are simply so MANY books.
What should be included in a canon and what should not? How about the books that have shaped the world...
But there are hundreds... how about the barest minimum
The Bible, the Koran, Socrates' Dialogues, Pythagoras' Geometries, the Odyssey, the Illiad, Machiavelli, Bernouilli, Newton, Leibnitz, it becomes a list of names.
I'm unsatisfied at the IDEA of a Canon because there are simply so MANY books.
posted by ur.alcuin@googlemail.com at 12:24 PM
2 Comments:
Thank you Alcuin. I am going to attempt to start readin. I'l get back to you in around 8 years.
...impossible and rightly enraging. Too many books and it CAN ONLY be judged by the current crop of "Canonisers"...so no use whatsoever really!!!
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