I would also love a recording. I suggest that before you click "record" you ask if anyone wants to change their username on the Zoom call and turn their cameras off. That is what other creators have done. I would benefit from a recording as I go to bed super early and get up super early so by 8 pm at night, I've spent my mental energy for the day. I'd get so much more from participation if I could listen in the morning when I'm fresh.
Aye aye captain! I didn't expect that to be the better approach, but it makes sense as the bigger value in reading philosophy is learning to understand complex ideas, rather than learning the complex ideas themselves.
Almost finished with Book 1! Some of his argumentation has been hard for me to follow, mostly because I'm new to Aristotle and philosophy in general, but I persevere! Gotta find out about this happiness thing! Looking forward to your Book 1 post!
I've just been reading about 5-6 pages a day. I'm trying to space it out over a couple days and then use the last day to review annotations and try and grasp the overall idea of the book. I think I could've easily read it in one sitting of an hour or two (I'm a slow reader). One week per book definitely seems to be a reasonable time frame.
Just discovered Mr Henderson/Substack on the whole tonight—rotting in bed leaning over these posts, watching the calendar go from July 7th to July 8th lol. Glad to hear you were able to crunch it out in a pretty timely manner! Makes it a little less daunting realizing I have some catching up to do
Will the Zoom call be recorded? I won’t be able to make the call live but would still love to hear everyone’s takes on the reading
I’ll have to think about it and see what I could do. There are privacy issues if other people don’t want to be recorded.
I would also love a recording. I suggest that before you click "record" you ask if anyone wants to change their username on the Zoom call and turn their cameras off. That is what other creators have done. I would benefit from a recording as I go to bed super early and get up super early so by 8 pm at night, I've spent my mental energy for the day. I'd get so much more from participation if I could listen in the morning when I'm fresh.
That’s a good point. Even some sort of transcript or summarization of what was discussed after would be great.
A recap of the main points would probably be doable.
Joining the Summer of Aristotle slightly late here, but excited to get started!
I have the Penguin Classics copy and the language is fairly simple. Really looking forward to the zoom calls.
I'm already falling behind because I committed to reading the introduction before starting the books. And it's quite long :')
I’d recommend skipping the introduction and coming back to it later, honestly!
Aye aye captain! I didn't expect that to be the better approach, but it makes sense as the bigger value in reading philosophy is learning to understand complex ideas, rather than learning the complex ideas themselves.
Almost finished with Book 1! Some of his argumentation has been hard for me to follow, mostly because I'm new to Aristotle and philosophy in general, but I persevere! Gotta find out about this happiness thing! Looking forward to your Book 1 post!
How much time did it take you? Trying to make some estimates and planning here.
I've just been reading about 5-6 pages a day. I'm trying to space it out over a couple days and then use the last day to review annotations and try and grasp the overall idea of the book. I think I could've easily read it in one sitting of an hour or two (I'm a slow reader). One week per book definitely seems to be a reasonable time frame.
Just discovered Mr Henderson/Substack on the whole tonight—rotting in bed leaning over these posts, watching the calendar go from July 7th to July 8th lol. Glad to hear you were able to crunch it out in a pretty timely manner! Makes it a little less daunting realizing I have some catching up to do