The Importance of Family in Reading

The fourth level of reading moves into what he calls syntopical reading. This is where he gets the name of the syntopicon, uh, which are the first two books of great books in the western world. It's a series of essays that are, um, 101 great ideas and him tracking how those ideas have developed over time. So even if he is not intentionally bringing in, AJ talked about Plutarch's lives on this episode.