Comments on: The Great Ideas Today

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:35:40 +0000

Unspeakably moved sounds about right. Always glad to hear about more classically minded Ian Stewarts in the world!

By: Janelle Stewart

Janelle Stewart — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:56:45 +0000

I came across your post doing a search for The Great Ideas Today. I was trying to find if there were any more published after 1998 and if not why? Anyway, I just received from my father his entire collection of The Great Books, Gateway to the Great Books and the complete Great Ideas Today from 1961-1998. I unspeakably moved to have them and may never need to buy another book. Well, that may be a tad premature. I am homeschooling my son (also named Ian Stewart!) who is only 5 but we are using classical literature and next have scheduled a children’s version of Plutarch as well as children’s version of the Iliad and a little Shakespeare for good measure! I am envisioning that my newly acquired collection will have much use over the years….

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:41:43 +0000

Tumbleweeds?!

If you only knew how busy I was.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:26:58 +0000

Wishoswashowishshhshsoawsashhhh…

(That’s the sound of the wind blowing a tumbleweed through your blog.)

By: Elliot

Elliot — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:40:15 +0000

You might want to sneak over to Andy’s house and steal the bookcase full of Adler-edited volumes the boys have got. I assume they’re from his Great Books series - everything from Aristotle to Marx.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:13:08 +0000

http://www.thegreatideas.org/git.html

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:08:39 +0000

Totally. Jealous. I knew they had a book on the great ideas but I didn’t know about the series. According to Wikipedia there were 37 volumes!