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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 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."

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:

 * Leave it to Psmith
 * Blandings Castle and Elsewhere
 * How Right you Are, Jeeves

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

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

 * 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:

 * Chesterton:
 * Orthodoxy
 * What's Wrong with the World
 * Charles Dickens
 * The Everlasting Man
 * The Autobiography
 * Belloc:
 * The Path to Rome
 * The Four Men

Six Memorable Novels, among the Millions:

 * 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:

 * 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:

 * 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

Brideshead Revisited

Rudolf Allers, The Psychology of Character

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

Law
Whatever Happened to Justice?

Law's Order by David Friedman

Simple Rules for a Complex World by Richard Epstein

Great Books of the Western World
The Great Ideas Program

The Great Conversation

Volume 1: Plato

American History
A Patriot's History of the United States by Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart

The Annals of America

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


 * 1500 - 1600 - The Reformation


 * 1600 - 1700 - Age of Kings


 * 1700 - 1800 - The Enlightenment


 * 1800 - 1850 - Industrial Revolution
 * 1850 - 1914 - Age of Progress


 * 1914 - Present - Modern

Economics
The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman

Core Curriculum
=Economics=
 * David Friedman's Law's Order.

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)

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)