http://www.skipstein.com/documents/skip-stein-blog.php Skip Stein’s Blog en-us Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:44:45 +0000 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:44:45 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Age of Individualism I speak as a citizen of the Unites States of America, where individual freedom, the rights of the individual , is enshrined in the Constitution. I look at Europe and our Great Country and fear for Our future. Mass movements, social movements, begin on a high ideal, on ideals of social justice, but they are most often submerge the individual , and thus the voice of common morality. ...

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http://www.skipstein.com/documents/skip-stein-blog.php?entry_id=1322685186&title=reading-one---plato039s--socrates-apology-and-crito-dialogues Great Books of the Western World http://www.skipstein.com/documents/skip-stein-blog.php?entry_id=1322685186&title=reading-one---plato039s--socrates-apology-and-crito-dialogues http://www.skipstein.com/documents/skip-stein-blog.php?entry_id=1322685186&title=reading-one---plato039s--socrates-apology-and-crito-dialogues&action=rss 1 http://www.skipstein.com/documents/skip-stein-blog.php?entry_id=1322685186&title=reading-one---plato039s--socrates-apology-and-crito-dialogues Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:33:06 +0000 If any of my old and dear friends read this they may be surprised.   When I was beginning college back in the late 1960's I invested/purchase 'The Great Books of the Western World'.  It was an indexed/integrated set of books featuring the greatest written works of the Western Civilization.  My original thought that they would be wonderful to help me with my college work and they were a bit.  Unfortunately, few of my classes referenced ...

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