[Cicero]

Thanks, Alamo-Girl. I should have addressed my earlier posts to all of you.

I'm fascinated to learn about the projected book. I happen to be in the field of English literature, and have touched on these matters in some of my books, but have not had formal training in philosophy, which is probably just as well, all things considered. There aren't too many places that teach it properly.

But I was fortunate enough to have had a course at Harvard that let Plato and Aristotle speak for themselves, and another course that let the medieval philosophers speak for themselves. The latter was taught by Henry Osborne Taylor, a proper New England WASP who nevertheless had a real sympathy for Catholic medieval thought and civilization, and recognized that civilization was transmitted and rebuilt by heroes like Gregory the Great, Boniface, and Thomas Aquinas. That put me onto further reading on my own.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for your reply and for giving us further insight into "you!"

But I was fortunate enough to have had a course at Harvard that let Plato and Aristotle speak for themselves, and another course that let the medieval philosophers speak for themselves.

Those sound just like the kind of courses that would interest me too, Cicero! Looking at the root of a philosophy, gives us a much clearer picture.

I'm very grateful to betty boop who has faithfully done just that for years on the forum, and of course very much so in the book.