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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall
editA Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is a booklet written by James V. Schall and published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
In it, Schall writes that there are things that should be known " `for their own sakes, ` not for some useful or pleasurable purpose". These things help us in our pursuit of truth, to know reality the way it really is which is the true purpose of the mind. Unfortunately, these things are not taught in today's universities nor in the popular culture.
Included throughout the booklet are lists of books, which he suggests one read in the pursuit of "an intellectual life open to the truth". Schall wrote this booklet (an essay in his words) as almost a watered-down version of his book, Another Sort of Learning, which contains a more detailed recommendation on how to search for the true nature of things. An updated list originally included in the latter entitled "Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By" is reproduced at the end.
In addition, he makes a few notable suggestions:
- 1) Read the great books (of the Western world)
"The very existence of the great books enables us to escape from any tyranny of the present, from the idea that we only want to study what is currently `relevant' or immediately useful."
- 2) Build a personal library
"...we have not read a great book at all if we have read it only once."
"...at differing times of my life I have seen things in these works that I could not have seen when I was younger."
"There is nothing wrong with going back and in our leisure finding out what we had forgotten or not placed in the right context."
- 3) Engage in self-denial.
"Almost always, on reflection upon ourselves, we can find something in us, in our desires or habits or choices, that would prevent us from confronting the really important things."
Books Read
editHow To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler
editRecommended Books
editAnother Sort of Learning by James V. Schall
The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson
The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver
P.G. Wodehouse novels:
editHumorous Books:
edit- The Wodehouse Clergy
- James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
- The Pocket book of Ogden Nash
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae
Five Books on Thomas Aquinas:
edit- Ralph McInerny, St. Thomas Aquinas
- Josef Pieper, Guide to St. Thomas Aquinas
- James Weisheipl, Friar Thomas D'Aquino
- G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
- Brian Davies, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Ellis Sandoz, The Voegelinian Revolution
E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
Five Classic Texts on Philosophy, Good Men, and Death
edit- The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato
- The account of the death of Christ in the Gospel of John (Chapters 13-21)
- Cicero, On Duties, especially Part III, written just before he was executed
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philsophy
- on Sir Thomas More, Robert Bolt, Man for All Seasons
Six classic texts never to be left unread
edit- Plato, Gorgias
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Augustine, The Confessions
- Pascal, Pensees
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Seven Books about Universities
edit- Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
- Robert K. Carlson, Truth on Trial
- Lynne Cheney, Telling the Truth
- Christopher Derrick, Escape from Skepticism: Liberal Education as if the Truth Mattered
- Dinesh D'Souza, Illiberal Education
- John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Four Books Once Found in Used Book Stores
edit- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
- Vivan Mercier, Editor, Great Irish Short Stores
- Perry Miller, The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry
- Robert Short, The Gospel According to Peanuts
Conversations with Eric Voegelin
Five Books by Joseph Pieper
edit- "Divine Madness": Plato's Case against Secular Humanism]]
- The Four Cardinal Virtues
- In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity
- Living the Truth, which includes The Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good
- Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Pope John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope
Six Books given to me as a gift and now in my personal library:
edit- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
- Gilbert Highet, Poets in a Landscape
- Thomas Mann, Stories and Episodes
- G.K. Chesterton, The Defendant
- Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
- The Letters of Evelyn Waugh
Five Books by G.K. Chesterton and Two by His Friend Hilaire Belloc:
edit- Chesterton:
- Belloc:
Six Memorable Novels, among the Millions:
edit- Jane Austen, Emma
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
- Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack
- Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
- Walker Percy, Lancelot
- Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Three Books on Love:
edit- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
- Josef Pieper's About Love
- Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World
Four Older but Insightful Books on How to Prepare for an Intellectual Life:
edit- A.D. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life
- Mortimer Adler, How to Read a Book
- Gilbert Highet, The Art of Teaching
- Jacques Barzun, Teacher in America
Louis L'Amour, The Education of a Wandering Man
Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning
Rudolf Allers, The Psychology of Character
High School Books
edit- James Oliver Curwood's dog stories
- Robert Hugh Benson's, The Lord of the World
Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By
edit- J.M. Bochenski, Philosophy - an Introduction
- Dorothy Sayers, The Whimsical Christian
- Yves Simon, A General Theory of Authority
- Eric Mascall, The Christian Universe
- Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: The Letters of Flannery O'Connor
- Hilaire Billoc, Selected Essays
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- Peter Kreeft, Back to Virtue
- Johann Huizinga, Homo Ludens
- Conversations with Walker Percy
- Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins Today
- Stanely Jaki, The Road of Science and the Ways to God
- Herbert Butterfield, Christianity and History
- Henry Veatch, Rational Man
- Leon Kass, The Hungry Soul
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editSimple Rules for a Complex World by Richard Epstein
The Great Ideas Program
The Great Conversation
Volume 1: Plato
A Patriot's History of the United States by Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart
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editFor having reverted an edit you agreed with because it was unencyclopedic
edit--BenBurch 23:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
-- CHOMP! CHOMP! (mmmmmm!) :-) Lawyer2b 05:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks
editI was just trying to get my thoughts down. I forgot to read through it again. Cheers Dmanning 20:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)