The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition
10 best books like The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition (E. Christian Kopff): The Politics Of Prudence, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market, The Art of Teaching, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
| Author | Russell Kirk |
| ISBN | 1932236554 |
In 2019, when the elected officials who still call themselves conservatives opportunistically embrace the brash showmanship, mendacity, and chaotic iconoclasm of Trump, it is instructive to remember what the term "conservative" once stood for.
In 1992, when he was in his '70's, Russell...
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
| Author | James S. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0791435865 |
This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, or any number of trendy experiments in education, Poetic Knowledge returns to the freshness and importance...
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | Adrian Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0750932953 |
Since his death on a Persian battlefield in A.D. 363, the violent end of the Emperor Julian has become synonymous with the death of paganism. But how did a young philosopher-warrior, who ruled for only eighteen months, come to be seen as one of the most potent threats to Christianity?
Driven...
| Author | Richard Gamble |
| ISBN | 1933859253 |
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
| Author | Anthony O'Hear |
| ISBN | 1933859784 |
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute,...
| Author | Wilhelm Röpke |
| ISBN | 1882926242 |
This classic book, by a long-dead and almost-forgotten German economist, is suddenly relevant again. I have had a copy on my bookshelf for thirty years, never read, and I was startled by how timely "A Humane Economy" is. Today, elements of Left and Right are ganging up to kick neoliberalism when it’s...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 0679723145 |
Over the years I have met people who were students of Gilbert Highet when he was a classics professor at Columbia. He was by all accounts a gentleman of the old school, a genteel and erudite scholar whose lectures on Vergil's Aeneid and many other classical works were widely appreciated. You get a sense...
| Author | Tracy Lee Simmons |
| ISBN | 1882926730 |
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
| Author | David A. Hollinger |
| ISBN | 0195183401 |
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,...
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 1893554260 |
For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the cultivation of free men. Yet today speaking Latin would be regarded as a sign of eccentricity, not erudition. People now attend university for technical expertise in fields like business,...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0674990447 |
De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil") is a philosophical work by the Roman orator, politician and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. It consists of five books, in which Cicero explains the philosophical views of Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Platonism of Antiochus of Ascalon....
| Author | Philip Matyszak |
| ISBN | 0500051216 |
The Roman Republic was one of the most civilized societies in the ancient world, ruled by elected officials whose power was checked by a constitution so well crafted that it inspired the founding fathers of the United States of America. Here Philip Matyszak describes fifty-seven of the foremost Romans...
| Author | Henry Bettenson |
| ISBN | 0195012933 |
It took me one year and three months, but I've finally finished this comprehensive survey of writings relating to the Christian Church that I bought for the Church History class I audited last Fall. Reading just a little bit at a time eventually adds up! This collection was originally compiled in 1943...
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0691000522 |
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous...
| Author | Douglas Wilson |
| ISBN | 1885767145 |
As parents, it is easy for us to look back and see the shortcomings of our own education. Since many of us were taught in public schools, we often have a pretty good idea of what we don't want our children to learn. But what exactly should we give them instead? The authors of Repairing the Ruins, a group of experienced...
| Author | David V. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0761814671 |
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
Since this paper is known to have had great influence on the emergence of the classical schooling movement, I could not help but include it in my article Learning How to Think: A Reading List for Parents Considering Classical Education.”. I first read it about the time I decided to send my child to a classical...
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
| Author | James Davison Hunter |
| ISBN | 0465031773 |
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light...
While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it up," to endure, to put aside their feelings and to get...
| Author | Neil Postman |
| ISBN | 0375701273 |
In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.
Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from...
Six Crises (Richard Nixon Library Editions)
| Author | Richard M. Nixon |
| ISBN | 0671706195 |
Published in 1961 long before Watergate, this is an earnest, analytical, and fascinating account of Nixon's early political life by the man himself. I am not a political history buff and wasn't even alive during the events discussed in this book, but I found every paragraph intriguing and interesting....
