A new book by Jay Topp
The Last
Free Minds
A Hundred-Year Plan for Reading the Great Books
The timeless wisdom of the West — Plato to Nietzsche — is yours for the taking, and almost no one takes it. This is the inspiring case for studying the Great Books, and the plan that finally makes it possible.
“The greatest minds who ever lived will speak to anyone who will sit still long enough to listen. There is no gate. There is no guard.”
from the opening pages
The book
The inspiring case for studying the timeless wisdom of the Great Books — and why the few who take it up become free, independent minds.
The method
A hundred-year plan made software: the Great Ideas Tour, then a relevance-first library that meets you where you are. Summary-first, primary texts a tap away.
The companion
Virgil reads with you — glossing a hard passage, pressing the Socratic question, drawing the threads between thinkers across centuries.