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We grieve not because we lose people. We grieve because we lose the worlds. But maybe it's both — because a person is where a world begins. Death might be the loss of continuity: the Self that threads your memories and goals into one story goes dark, and the world that only existed through you goes with it. #death #consciousness #philosophy #grief #theself Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://t.co/O86gQMqYFR

Reading Homer with no secondary sources is not going to turn you into a Homer scholar, but it is going to leave you knowing more about Homer than if you never read him at all. I think that is the key Great Books point, that it’s worth having a basic reading familiarity with the wide swathe of great writers. Yes, to know any of them deeply you’d need to go back and take detailed coursework on scholarship, but it’s better to have that passing familiarity with the wide list and one or two areas of specialty than to only have the one or two areas of specialty.