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

Jeeves

Father Brown

Commander McBragg

Drones Club

Gentlemen's club (traditional)

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:

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

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

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

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

Plato, Gorgias
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Augustine, The Confessions
Pascal, Pensees
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

The Republic

The City of God

The Summa Theologiae

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

St. Augustine, Confessions

Four Books Once Found in Used Book Stores

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

Joseph Pieper, Anthology

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