The Purpose of Reading: Thucydides, Plutarch, Montesquieu, Nietzsche

This discussion contains what the authors of the “great books” have to say about the purpose of reading with emphasis on what they teach we their readers about the obstacles and limitations of reading.

Alternatively, this discussion contains many of the most important thoughts about reading — how to read — by the very authors of the great books that far too many of the various “great books” accounts and podcasts don’t even know exists in the very books they proclaim to teach.