The Idea of a University
10 best books like The Idea of a University (John Henry Newman): Politics, City of God, Introduction to Christianity, The Way Things are, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Ideas Have Consequences, Habits of the Mind: Intellectual life as a Christian calling, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Classics of Western Spirituality), The Abolition of Man
Politics
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0486414248 |
City of God
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0140448942 |
You know, there are two ways of getting answers in the world... there’s getting the world’s answers (and that’s sometimes doublethink) and there’s getting TRANSCENDENTAL answers!
Sub specie aeternitatis, transcendental answers are the...
Introduction to Christianity
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1586170295 |
The Way Things are
| Author | Lucretius |
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)
When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 1890318353 |
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 0226876802 |
| Author | James W. Sire |
| ISBN | 0830822739 |
| 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...
| Author | Athanasius of Alexandria |
| ISBN | 0809122952 |
The Abolition of Man
| Author | C.S. Lewis |