tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123660442024-03-11T23:53:58.222-05:00The Provincial Emails<center><small><b>Great Books, Liberal Education, Mortimer Adler</b></small></center><br>Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.comBlogger4768125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-6853223541537048582023-12-31T23:30:00.034-06:002024-03-04T20:13:32.925-06:00Reading Rat - December 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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See Sophocles, Plays,
Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 5,
(second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 4.
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Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-80236737908402008072023-11-14T08:00:00.008-06:002023-11-14T08:00:00.149-06:00How to Mark a BookMortimer J. Adler, Ph.D., 1n
The Saturday Review of Literature
(via Stevenson College.
"Confusion about what it means to "own" a book leads people to a false reverence for
paper, binding, and type -- a respect for the physical thing -- the craft of the printer rather
than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire the idea,
to possess the beauty, which a Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-16861368925980250372023-10-31T23:30:00.006-05:002023-11-07T13:07:17.858-06:00Reading Rat - October 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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The New York Times.
"In 1946, Allan Bloom entered the University of Chicago.
"Founded in 1891 with an initial gift of $600,000 from John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago was determined from the beginning to model itself upon Oxford, Cambridge and the great German universities - and to do so, noted aTerrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-44576599488333364842023-09-30T23:30:00.035-05:002023-10-30T12:58:19.462-05:00Reading Rat - September 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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In addition to ongoing reading groups and tutorials,
the Catherine Project periodically hosts single seminars
on short works. These two-hour conversations are
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with minimal commitment. The following essay was
inspired by a Fall 2022 seminar on Montaigne’s essay
"Of Pedantry".
See Montaigne, Essays, at
Great Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-49747954370857037102023-08-31T23:30:00.018-05:002023-09-04T14:57:29.581-05:00Reading Rat - August 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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The New York Times.
As a young man, Lincoln was barely a Christian in the conventional sense. ...<!-- He was skeptical of the Bible’s miracles, read freethinkers like Thomas Paine and may even have been the author of a tract attacking religion. (We don’t exactly know, because if it did exist, aTerrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-68470600464026248402023-07-05T16:29:00.000-05:002023-07-05T16:29:53.774-05:00The Darwinian Emergence of Aristotle's Political Animals and de Waal's Moral Animals: A Reply to Cheryl Abbate, by Larry Arnhart, at
Darwinian Conservatism.
"Aristotle's statement that 'man is by nature a political animal' is famous. But it is often falsely assumed to mean that human beings are by nature the only political animals."
See Darwin,
Autobiography, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 8,
The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, in
Great Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-81275364129998535622023-06-30T23:30:00.085-05:002023-09-14T12:23:02.040-05:00Reading Rat - June 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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The New Criterion.
"All legitimate law, according to the founders' social-compact theory, is meant to reflect, not define, the principles of natural justice, which exist independently of human will. In other words, as Arkes pithily observes, there are 'truths that would be thereTerrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-14621256294115848762023-06-18T08:00:00.009-05:002023-06-18T08:00:00.142-05:00Kafka's TrialsTheodore Dalrymple reviewed
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, translated by ross benjamin, at
First Things.
See Kafka, "The Metamorphosis", in
Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.
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"In 2011, Chief Justice Roberts commented that if you 'pick up a copy of any law review that you see,' 'the first article is likely to be, you know, the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th-century Bulgaria, or something, which I'm sure was of great interest toTerrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-29240803887307992922023-03-31T23:30:00.050-05:002023-11-07T13:07:57.575-06:00Reading Rat - March 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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The Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, by John S. Skilton, University of Wisconsin Law School,
Wisconsin Law Review.
"But how was this rather crude, physically awkward 'prairie
lawyer' with no formal education to speak of, able to formulate such
thoughts, assume such awesome responsibilities, and lead this Nation in
its time of utmost peril? It is on Terrence Berreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867275234105879358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12366044.post-38919645350289742392023-01-31T23:30:00.001-06:002023-03-13T14:55:50.803-05:00Reading Rat - January 2023<!-- Reading Rat - [Month Year] (template) -->
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