I don’t feel I understand physics from reading Newton any more than I understand philosophy from reading Plato or Literature from reading Homer. If you study a

I don’t feel I understand physics from reading Newton any more than I understand philosophy from reading Plato or Literature from reading Homer. If you study any of these subjects in a normal college, you’ll learn about the actual subjects in progressive depth. At most great books schools, the “subject” is the intellectual tradition as a whole - that’s the only thing you study in progressive (it non-linear) depth.