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Great Conversations 3Great Books Discussion

Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings, 7- 9 pm
Youth Services Meeting Room, Library
Information: (480) 350-5507

Great Books Discussion Group-480-350-5507- The Great Books Foundation promotes reading, thinking, and the sharing of ideas for people of all ages. Readers across the country reaffirm for themselves that discussing their favorite book in a Great Books group is a powerful instrument for personal growth and social engagement.

Come and nourish yourself with great literature on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 7pm in the Youth Services Meeting Room.  Volunteers Kathy and Don Dietz serve as discussion leaders.  Participants provide their own copies of the works to be discussed.

Visit us at: http://www.tempe.gov/library/events/grtbooks.htm and the Great Books Foundation web site at http://www.greatbooks.org/.

Read an article from the Arizona Republic about the Great Books Group:

     Arizona Republic Article

In honor of the upcoming elections, the Great Books discussion group will read and discuss various excerpts from And Justice for All: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50.

Fall and Winter 2008 List:

August 12, 2008 An Interest in Life* Grace Paley
August 26, 2008 The Body of the Condemned** Michael Foucault
Sept 9, 2008 Interpreter of Maladies* Jhumpa Lahiri       
Sept 23, 2008

-The Human Rights Idea             
 -Preamble  to the Charter of the United Nations**
-Universal Declaration of Human Right **

 Louis Henkin
Oct 14, 2008

-The Declaration of Independence**
- The Constitution of the United States**
-Of Civil Government                     

John Locke
Oct 28, 2008

- Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen**
-Anarchical  Fallacies                        

 Jeremy Bentham
Nov 11, 2008

-As to Humaness
- The Four Freedoms**

 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nov 25, 2008 - The Perplexities of the Rights of Man Hannah Arendt
Dec 9, 2008 - Crimes of War, Crimes of Peace Catherine Mackinnon
Dec 23, 2008 -Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality R.Rorty
     
     
 * indicates a reading from Great Conversations 3,The Great Books Foundation.  Copies of these anthologies are on reserve in the Tempe Library and may be obtained from the Great Books Foundation http://www.greatbooks.org/.

**Reading from And Justice for All: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50. Copies of this anthology are on reserve in the Tempe Library and may be obtained from the Great Books Foundation http://www.greatbooks.org/.