A Bibliophile's Odyssey: Reading The Great Books

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Great Books Ep 75. Sophocles - Philoctetus. The Isle of Loneliness: The Psychological Toll of Isolation
Being left alone without any contact with anyone else is damaging to most people. The deprivation of human contact can lead to severe psychological…
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Great Books Ep 74. Sophocles - Trachiniae. The All Conquering Power of Love.
Heracles sacks a city and causes a lot of destruction because he falls in love with someone and wants to have her at any cost. Does all-consuming…
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Great Books Ep 73. Sophocles - Electra. The Importance of Information
People are prone to believe what they are told because everyone wants to believe and not question. But believing in the wrong information leads to being…
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Rob, a bibliophile
Great Books Ep 72. Sophocles - Ajax. The Unseen Mental Health Struggles of Executives
Executives today face a lot more stress than in the past - the world is incredibly complex, there are expectations to keep updated on myriads of things…
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Great Books Ep 71. Sophocles - Antigone. Moral Choice vs Rigid Rules of Law.
Rigid adherence to rule of the state above all may sometimes come at the cost of overall social benefit
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Great Books Ep 70. Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus. From Exile to Ascension.
Even if you have a life of hardship and even if everyone around you abandons you, you could still ascend to greatness in the end.
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Great Books Ep 69. Sophocles - Oedipus the King. Our Enduring Fascination with Predicting the Future.
A lot of technology gets used in predicting the future which always tends to be off the mark. Can newer technologies be used to improve the lives of…
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