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Ten Books Every Student Should Read in College
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| Week of June 2, 2003
| 28 distinguished scholars and university professors
Posted on 05/30/2003 11:45:30 AM PDT by Remedy
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To: Remedy
Only 10 on the list?
I think they should read at least 100. They've got 4 years to do it.
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:22:07 PM PDT
by
narby
(Rachael Carson: History's biggest mass murderer)
To: Remedy
Baloney the anti-federalists were generally corrupt state officials seeking to preserve their power at the cost of the Union. Had they had their way the Union would have been still-born and destroyed in its cradle.
Their insipid writings are of little value other than examples of the idiocy which the true patriots, the Federalists, had to face. Their victory in overcoming this crew of meatheads was one of mankinds' greatest achievements.
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:22:15 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: Remedy
Posting the Honorable Mentions:
Honorable Mention
Natural Right and History
by Leo Strauss
38 points
The Conservative Mind
by Russell Kirk
36 points
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
by Harry V. Jaffa
33 points
Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis
32 points
The Illiad
by Homer
31 points
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
29 points
The Abolition of Man
by C.S. Lewis
27 points
Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton
25 points
Aeneid
by Virgil
19 points
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
18 points
Modern Times
by Paul Johnson
18 points
Oedipus Trilogy
by Sophocles
18 points
Ideas Have Consequences
by Richard Weaver
17 points
Idea of a University
by John Henry Newman
16 points
The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich von Hayek
16 points
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
14 points
Gorgias
by Plato
14 points
A Humane Economy
by Wilhelm Roepke
14 points
The Public Philosophy
by Walter Lippman
14 points
The Roots of American Order
by Russell Kirk
14 points
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:22:26 PM PDT
by
Carolina
To: goldstategop
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
Seriously... in order to defeat the other side, you have to understand where they're coming from.
45
posted on
05/30/2003 12:23:21 PM PDT
by
So Cal Rocket
(Free Miguel and Priscilla!)
To: babyface00
Yeah... but I like old-fashioned books. :)
46
posted on
05/30/2003 12:23:22 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: babyface00
BUMP!
47
posted on
05/30/2003 12:23:47 PM PDT
by
Remedy
To: Remedy
11 - Atlas Shrugged
12 - Anti-Federalist Papers
13 - Unintended Consequences by John Ross
48
posted on
05/30/2003 12:24:16 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("It's the same ole story, same ole song and dance, my friend")
To: Remedy
b'n'k
49
posted on
05/30/2003 12:24:24 PM PDT
by
CGVet58
(I still miss my ex-wife... but my aim is improving!)
To: RightWhale
Cicero wept for Rome, and never gave up the idea of its former greatness as a Republic. As Consul of Rome (President), he did all he could to reign in the excesses of mob rule (democracy). When he was finally assasinated, I think the spirit of the Republic died with him. I sure can't wait to chat with him one day.
To: FlatLandBeer
A mediocre novel has no place in such a distinguished list of literature.
It wouldn't even make the list of top 100 novels. Maybe not even the top 1000. And, yes, I have read it and most of her other ones.
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:25:00 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: BillyBoy
Ayn Rand is to literature as WJC is to ethics.
52
posted on
05/30/2003 12:26:03 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: Remedy
I've read most of 6 of them. Can I get a passing grade?
To: eastsider
I thought you might be interested to learn that Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics made the Top 10! It's a good list, but the Summa Theologica has to come in at number two.
Then again, why go to college when you can buy these books on Amazon for $350? That's a savings of $55,650 off the MSRP...
To: Alberta's Child
1. Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset Ortega ping. Not to forget Man and People; The Dehumanization of Art, and Norton's Phenomenology and Art
55
posted on
05/30/2003 12:27:07 PM PDT
by
cornelis
To: LonghornFreeper
I suggest Euclid on geometry
To: widowithfoursons; AdamSelene235
There is some debate if Henry said that at all. He might have said, "I smell a ratification". No matter what, he was opposed to the bill of rights and the constitution. It took a while but he was eventually proven correct.
Elliot's Debates --Thursday, June 12, 1788
The tyranny of Philadelphia may be like the tyranny of George III. I believe this similitude will be incontestably proved before we conclude. His amendments go to that despised thing, called a bill of rights, and all the rights which are dear to human nature--trial by jury, the liberty of religion and the press, &c. Do not gentlemen see that, if we adopt, under the idea of following Mr. Jefferson's opinion, we amuse ourselves with the shadow, while the substance is given away?
Under the abominable veil of political secrecy and contrivance, your most valuable rights may be sacrificed by a most corrupt faction, without having the satisfaction of knowing who injured you. They are bound by honor and conscience to act with integrity, but they are under no constitutional restraint . . .
Pass that government, and you will be bound hand and foot . . .
Pass this government, and you will be carried to the federal court, (if I understand that paper right,) and you will be compelled to pay shilling for shilling . . .
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:27:57 PM PDT
by
DPB101
(Support H.R. 1305 to cut the Federal tax on beer in half)
To: SuzanneWeeks
The Prince by Niccolo MachiavelliOr Gracian's Manual
58
posted on
05/30/2003 12:28:36 PM PDT
by
bruin66
(No decisions after 10AM)
To: jporcus
Where is "It Takes a Village"?
Used as kindling to burn Earth In The Balance.
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posted on
05/30/2003 12:28:44 PM PDT
by
Remedy
To: LonghornFreeper
I agree with many of these, but this list is much to liberal arts oriented. That's because the sciences of theology and philosophy are more important than the other sciences. Logically, the lesser sciences depend upon these higher sciences for their very definition.
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