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[edit] Late 19th/Early 20th Century Victorian era/Edwardian period English Aristocratic Culture

Rudyard Kipling

Dorothy L. Sayers

Sherlock Holmes

Upstairs, Downstairs

Bertie Wooster

Father Brown

Commander McBragg

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[edit] A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall

A 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:

"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."

"...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."

"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."

[edit] Books Read

[edit] How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler

[edit] Recommended Books

Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall

The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson

The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

[edit] P.G. Wodehouse novels:

[edit] Humorous Books:

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

[edit] Five Books on Thomas Aquinas:

  • 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

Plato, The Republic

Ellis Sandoz, The Voegelinian Revolution

Aristotle, Ethics

E.F. Schumacher, A Guide for the Perplexed

The Bible

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

[edit] Five Classic Texts on Philosophy, Good Men, and Death

[edit] Six classic texts never to be left unread

The Republic

The City of God

The Summa Theologiae

[edit] Seven Books about Universities

St. Augustine, Confessions

[edit] Four Books Once Found in Used Book Stores

Conversations with Eric Voegelin

Joseph Pieper, Anthology

[edit] Five Books by Joseph Pieper

  • "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

[edit] Six Books given to me as a gift and now in my personal library:

[edit] Five Books by G.K. Chesterton and Two by His Friend Hilaire Belloc:

[edit] Six Memorable Novels, among the Millions:

[edit] Three Books on Love:

[edit] Four Older but Insightful Books on How to Prepare for an Intellectual Life:

Louis L'Amour, The Education of a Wandering Man

Evelyn Waugh, A Little Learning

Brideshead Revisited

Rudolf Allers, The Psychology of Character

[edit] High School Books

[edit] Schall's Unlikely List of Books to Keep Sane By

[edit] Law

Whatever Happened to Justice?

Law's Order by David Friedman

Simple Rules for a Complex World by Richard Epstein

[edit] Great Books of the Western World

The Great Ideas Program

The Great Conversation

Volume 1: Plato

[edit] American History

A Patriot's History of the United States by Paul Johnson

The Annals of America

[edit] World History

Men and Nations

[edit] Great Ages of Man

  • 1600 - 1700 - Age of Kings
  • 1850 - 1914 - Age of Progress
  • 1914 - Present - Modern

[edit] Economics

The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

[edit] Core Curriculum

[edit] Economics

[edit] For having reverted an edit you agreed with because it was unencyclopedic

--BenBurch 23:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

-- CHOMP! CHOMP! (mmmmmm!) :-) Lawyer2b 05:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I was just trying to get my thoughts down. I forgot to read through it again. Cheers Dmanning 20:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)