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HOW TO READ A BOOK: READING CLUB
HOW TO READ A BOOK: READING CLUB


AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN LUPTON, FOUNDER OF BEVRY


The most important book that I have ever read, and my uttermost recommendation
to others, is the work How To A Read A Book by Mortimer Adler, in it he teaches
how to progress from reading for entertainment (the most basic reading level),
to reading for understanding (to become equal to the author), to reading for
original research (syntopical reading).

Included is a reading list of 150 works (some containing multiple books) that
became the substrate of ancient and modern civilisation. The reading list is
chronological, following an eternal conversation over three thousand years,
where each philosopher studies the prior works, grapples with the solved and
unsolved dilemmas, to offer solutions upon the students yet to born to continue
the tradition. Each work is a shoulder of a giant upon which the our shared tree
of humanity stands today.

Consider inspiration, it is to be inspired — which root comes from spirit and
spire — which is to have an uplifting connection with the forces of creation and
renewal. When we are dispirited, or lacking of spirit, our spire (our connection
to the gods - the supreme forces of the world) have become weak.

Consider mankind, or human, or “hey guys” — why is it that the masculine
pronouns are gender-neutral in many languages except for contemporary American
English? A female can assume all functions of a male, yet a male can do all
functions of female except for childbirth; gender from behaviour to conception
has emerged from the real sexual constraint and distinction; that woman is a
subset of man, that all women can function as men, but men cannot function as
women, as woman contains more than man.

Consider humanity, why does it evoke such reverie? Why are we honoured (or
ashamed) to be called human based on our own judgements of ourself and society?
What separates us mythically from non-human animals, from plants, from earth,
from nature? What unites all men (be it man or woman, master or slave, parent or
child)? What unites all life?

Consider the difference between what is logical, reasonable, rational? When and
where, and by who, did these distinctions evolve?

Such understandings are not novel, nor are they antiquated. They may be
challenging, especially to contemporary overlays of reality, however, whether
one individually or socially conceives god or gender, does do not detract from
such insights, they only add to them; and to survive they must become supreme,
not just wished.

For instance, the first work, Illiad by Homer, challenges us to consider how
much of our lives are our own? The second work, Odyssey by Homer, challenges us
to consider what home is worth returning to? The third work, the Old Testament,
challenges us to consider if civics could be supreme? Each work challenges us in
some way, as it did the original author aeons ago. Civilisation needs not be an
amorphous concept enacted ethereally, but can transform into a concrete
realisation of the best understandings we have of how to scale humanity
successfully, and civility can cease being wishful and contemptful and can
become as compassionate and humble as maturation.

This reading club is designed to offer each of us, around the world, without the
need to wait or to pay, the democratising ability to integrate within ourselves
eternal wisdom, and partake in the duty of a becoming a mature independent
agent, an adult, in our lives, our communities, and our societies.

Let us march forward, not in err nor in haste, but upon the shoulders of giants,
to whom we owe the developmental freedom to comprehend this.

THE READING LIST

The Reading List
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