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[[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 [http://www.isi.org 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=
==How To Read A Book by [[Mortimer Adler]]==
=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
==[[P.G. Wodehouse]] novels:==
==Humorous Books:==
- The Wodehouse Clergy
- James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times
- The Pocket book of Ogden Nash
==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
Ellis Sandoz, The Voegelinian Revolution
==Five Classic Texts on Philosophy, Good Men, and Death==
- 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==
==Seven Books about Universities==
- 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==
==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
==Six Books given to me as a gift and now in my personal library:==
==Five Books by G.K. Chesterton and Two by His Friend [[Hilaire Belloc]]:==
==Six Memorable Novels, among the Millions:==
==Three Books on Love:==
- 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:==
==High School Books==
- 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==
- 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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[[Great Books of the Western World]]
[[American History]]
[[World History]]
Men and Nations
[[Great Ages of Man]]
- -500 - 500 - Classical
- 500 - 1000 - Dark Ages
- 1000 - 1400 - Middle Ages
- 1400 - 1500 - The Renaissance
- 1450 - 1650 - Age of Exploration/Discovery
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- 1600 - 1700 - Age of Kings
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- 1800 - 1850 - Industrial Revolution
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- 1914 - Present - Modern
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