The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being
10 best books like The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being (Richard Gamble): Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, The Art of Teaching, Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning, Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, Standing by Words
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 | E. Christian Kopff |
| ISBN | 1882926250 |
It's tremendously learned, and mostly well-written, and I want to agree with his message because I think a classics-heavy education is a great idea, but I disagree strongly with almost everything he says. His grand scheme seems to be teaching children Latin rather than social studies, and completely...
| 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 | 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 | Robert Littlejohn |
| ISBN | 1581345526 |
An excellent introduction to the ideas behind classical Christian education, Wisdom and Eloquence goes a step further, reexamining the presuppositions with which that contemporary classical educators practice. Littlejohn particularly hones in on what Douglas Wilson and ACCS call the "Sayers...
| Author | Stratford Caldecott |
| ISBN | 1587432625 |
Own. Wish I could do 3.5 stars.
I’m both smarter and dumber after reading this book.
This book is unabashedly Roman Catholic; quoting RC theologians and philosophers regularly and consistently, including the two most recent Popes frequently. His section on learning being by...
| Author | Anthony M. Esolen |
| ISBN | 1935191888 |
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
| 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...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1593760558 |
In these six essays, award-winning author Wendell Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever widening cleft between words and their referents mirrors the increasing...
Persecution and the Art of Writing
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226777111 |
It's easy to understand the influence of Hayek or Milton Friedman, but Leo Strauss is an entirely more perplexing case. What is it about this Spinoza expert and painstaking scholar of medieval philosophy that makes him an intellectual godfather to the modern GOP?
Let's try asking Peter Thiel...
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,...
Fundamentalism and American Culture
| Author | George M. Marsden |
| ISBN | 0195300475 |
Many Americans today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religious right. Controversial decisions by the government are met with hundreds of lobbyists, millions of dollars of advertising spending, and a powerful grassroots response. How has the fundamentalist...
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| ISBN | 0268011508 |
All the while I was listening to, reading along with, and contemplating Newman’s The Idea of a University I’ve been fighting this overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I can’t remember when I’ve encountered an author who’s challenged me so. While an excellent discipline and one to which I do...
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0268008019 |
In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. Gilson demonstrates that Aquinas drew from a wide spectrum of sources in the development of his thought—from Aristotle to the Arabic...
| 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,...
This new booklet introduces readers to a paradigm for understanding classical education that transcends the familiar three-stage pattern of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Instead, this booklet describes the liberal arts as a central part of a larger and more robust paradigm of classical education...
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684841886 |
"Our country faces many insistently urgent problems, on the solution of which its prosperity and even its survival depend--the threat of nuclear war, the shrinking of essential resources and supplies of energy, the pollution or spoliation of the environment, the spiraling of inflation accompanied...
| Author | John Milton Gregory |
| ISBN | 0801064961 |
The Seven Laws of Teaching wonderfully summarizes timeless basic principles of teaching and learning. There is a great deal of wisdom and food for thought in this slim volume and I’d commend it to any teacher. At first, the laws seemed simple, but Gregory takes the observable, fundamental elements...
| Author | James W. Sire |
| ISBN | 0830822739 |
A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year! What is an intellectual? How can you learn to think well? What does it mean to love God with your mind? Can the intellectual life be a legitimate Christian calling? Is the intellectual life your calling? James Sire brings wit and wisdom to bear on these questions...
| Author | James V. Schall |
| ISBN | 1932236899 |
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University’s James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is. In this volume, Schall, author of On...
| Author | Antonin Sertillanges |
| ISBN | 0813206464 |
"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
It has taken me a year to work my way through...
