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Ten Books Every Student Should Read in College
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| Week of June 2, 2003
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Posted on 05/30/2003 11:45:30 AM PDT by Remedy
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To: Remedy
So I guess the bottom line is that you just read about Cornell, and I as a conservative American adult have visited and sat in on classes there. But you know better, and I must be too stupid to put this in simple enough terms for you to understand.
Maybe you should get a job for the New York Times? You could even dateline your columns, "Ithaca" !
ML/NJ
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posted on
05/31/2003 11:14:57 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
Amazon.com: Books: Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted A review of 'The Hollow Men' by Charles Sykes.
Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It
Authors: Jerry L. Martin, Ph.D., President, ACTA
Anne D. Neal, Executive Director, ACTA
It was not only America that was attacked on September 11, but civilization. We were attacked not for our vices, but for our virtues-for what we stand for. In response, ACTA has established the Defense of Civilization Fund to support the study of American history and civics and of Western civilization. The first project of the Fund is Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It. The report calls on college and university trustees to make sure their institutions offer strong core curricula that pass on to the next generation the legacy of freedom and democracy.
Grove City College - Authentically Christian, Challenging
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has compiled this Portfolio of Excellence to help
alumni and other donors identify outstanding programs and organizations that they may want to
support. ACTA's Fund for Academic Renewal helps donors direct their gifts to existing or newly-created
programs and activities.
Enclosed you will find examples of exemplary higher education projects across the country. There
is no attempt to be exhaustive. Projects are included on the basis of descriptions provided to ACTA
and have not been independently verified. GREAT BOOKS and LIBERAL ARTS
Auburn University
Austin Peay State University
Bethel College
California Institute of Technology
California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University .
Columbia University
Delta State University
Gardner-Webb University .
Hillsdale College
Kansas State University
Louisiana State University at Shreveport
Loyola University of Chicago
Middle Tennessee State University
Rose Hill College .
St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco
St. John's College .
Temple University
Theodore Roosevelt School at Medaille College
Thomas Aquinas College
The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts .
University of Chicago .
University of Montevallo
University of Wisconsin .
Wilbur Wright College II. HONORS COLLEGES
Adelphi University
James Madison College at Michigan State University . III. CORE CURRICULA
Boston University
Brooklyn College
St. Anselm College
St. Olaf College .
University of Dallas
University of North Carolina at Asheville
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga IV. AMERICAN IDEALS AND LIBERTY
Duke University .
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Ð
Princeton University .
James Madison Program of the Sabre Foundation
Vanderbilt University V. PHILOSOPHY
Bowling Green State University .
Harvard University
Indiana University .
Missouri Baptist College VI. ECONOMICS
Auburn University Ð College of Business
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posted on
05/31/2003 2:40:08 PM PDT
by
Remedy
To: justshutupandtakeit
It was customary for the writers of that era to use pen names. Hamilton had a variety of them: Continentalist, Julius Caesar, How modest.
He, Madison and Jay all use Publicus for the FP. He was not trying to hide his identity and anyone who was interested knew who was writing them.
Really, how many cases can you document?
There is also the little issue of Hamilton fraudulently claiming credit for 63 numbers of the Federalist, some of them plainly written by Madison.
Patrick Henry was not a nationalist and did not want a government strong enough to create a more perfect union. After a great start he too wound up on History's Loser List.
I very much doubt Patrick is concerned with your opinion. What exactly does a "more perfect union" mean? For me a free society will suffice, others equate the ability to control and dominate others with "greatness".
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posted on
05/31/2003 4:38:42 PM PDT
by
AdamSelene235
(Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
To: LanPB01
Who was Atals and why did he shrug? Mysterious!
To: Paulus Invictus
He was the twin brother of Atlas. He shrugged whenever a tpying error was committed.
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posted on
05/31/2003 6:51:21 PM PDT
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LanPB01
To: Clarinet_King
Ping for your freshman reading list.
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posted on
06/01/2003 11:12:49 AM PDT
by
NerdDad
To: Aquinasfan
Thats funny stuff, really. Theology is the most important topic for Christians, myself included, but it is not a science. As for philosophy being a higher science, and more important that the "lesser" (i.e. real) sciences, tell that to all the philosophy majors who now work at Walmart and all the Engineers making six figure salaries. Aristotle's policy of all thinking, no experiment lead to brilliant thoughts like heavy objects fall faster than light objects, heat comes from "caloric", and the earth is the center of the solar system.
To: ArGee
I definately agree that you need to know the Bible, that is why I said many of the books. You can do everything you mentioned without knowing the philosophies of Plato, or Augustine, or Dante (trust me, I have done those things, and I haven't read any of the books on the list except the Bible and the Federalist papers). If you didn't have the sciences, there would be no cars take on dates, or bikes for that matter, and your children would be far less healthy without biology and medicine.
To: RomanCatholicProlifer
I agree that Luther made some errors, but not on the scale of the Catholic church and its blatant violation of multiple sections of the Bible, such as praying to saints, worshipping someone other than God (Mary), and randomly deciding that Priests must be celibate, when the Bible clearly states that church leaders can be "the husband of but one wife".
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
substitutions, rearrangement?
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posted on
06/01/2003 12:15:08 PM PDT
by
Remedy
To: Ichneumon
Please, Aesop's fables are current and instructive because they condense human folly and behavior to a few paragraphs totally unlike Rand's collection of sermons dressed up as fiction. Beliveable characters are the first requirement of good fiction. Her's don't have that quality.
No non-religious society will ever resist socialism. Rand's lack of religioius understanding prevents her from understanding how people think and the reasons they act. Atheists cannot have a clue about law and justice since they do not understand the human heart. Law can be based on nothing but force in the world without God.
Belief in God is the strongest motivation and most effective force against the socialism Rand hated so much but she undermines her strongest ally. Surely she understood why the commies made the Church its first enemy yet she ignores that.
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posted on
06/01/2003 4:36:05 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: Captain Kirk
Antis were opposed to a federal system and preferred one dominated by the states as it was under the confederation.
Nationalists understood the need for a strong Union, having just fought a war to gain nationhood. State-righters preferred to think in small terms and concentrate on their local corrupt political machines which they could control rather than be concerned about a large nation which would not be susceptible to their bribery and spoils systems. Their victory would have meant the death of the United States of America.
Most of the anti-federalist papers are of little use at all, some are positively lunatic in their paranoia and hysteria. Reading the titles are sufficient to realize they would not stand against thinkers like Hamilton and Madison.
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posted on
06/01/2003 4:49:04 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: AdamSelene235
Since H. was replying to Cato (George Clinton) - Julius Caesar was an appropriate choice of names. In view of his end, it was not a little ironic.
Hamilton indeed wrote 2/3 of the papers most authorities agree. He wrote about 15 of those in conjunction with Madison. Jay wrote 5. Madison could not write with anything like the speed of H., the greatest newspaper columnist of his day. His words were read by more people over a long period of time than any of his contemporaries. Had Madison been required to take a greater role the series would never have reached 85 essays.
Hamilton understood, unlike his enemies, that freedom needed a bulwark to survive and that history had repeatedly shown that it failed to survive when that fortress was missing. That was the goal behind his policies.
Had our first president been one of the democrat-republicans rather than Washington I have no doubt the nation would not have survived. Or if it had it would have been destroyed by a Confederate victory and the loser would have been mankind as a whole.
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posted on
06/01/2003 4:59:36 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: Remedy
Interestingly enough, the No. 1 book our judges decided every college student should read is a volume that has been virtually banned in public schools by the United States Supreme Court.
That's entirely false. The Bible may be read by students during free time including study hall, and may be studied as literature or a historically significant document. It may not be presented as divinely imspired or read devotionally during classroom time in public schools. That's all.
-Eric
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posted on
06/01/2003 5:04:47 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
To: BillyBoy
Oddly enough, I was forced to read Ayn Rand in High School and hated it. I don't get all the Ayn Rand worshipers on this forum who says Rand "converted" them to conservative thought. I was conservative long before Rand and her novel Anthem put me to sleep, Orwell wrote on the same theme and did it much better instead of hitting you over the head with it.
Heinlein did more to make me a conservative than Rand did, and many of his books are more teen-friendly.
-Eric
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posted on
06/01/2003 5:07:26 PM PDT
by
E Rocc
To: Remedy
Here was the spring reading list for St. John's of Annapolis
2003 January Freshmen Reading List.
Homer, Iliad.
Homer, Odyssey.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War.
Plato, Gorgias.
Plato, Meno.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex.
Plutarch, Lives; Lycurgus; Solon
SPRING BREAK
Plato, Republic.
Aristophanes, The Clouds
Plato, Apology, Crito
Plato, Phaedo
Plato, Symposium
Sophocles, Antigone
Plato, Theaetetus
Plato, Sophist
SECOND SEMESTER
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Politics
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Aristotle, Poetics
Plato, Timaeus
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Aristotle, Physics
Euripides, Hippolytus
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Plato, Phaedrus
Now that is what I call an education!!!!!
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posted on
06/01/2003 5:12:17 PM PDT
by
mware
To: nickcarraway
ping
To: Remedy
The Prince -- Niccolo Machiavelli The Art of War -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The Art of War -- Sun Tzu
The Book of Five Rings -- Go Rin No Sho
The Illiad & The Odyssey -- Homer
The Canterbury Tales -- Chaucer
The bombing starts in five minutes.
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posted on
06/01/2003 5:18:51 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(Nerve-racking since 0413hrs on XII-XXII-MCMLXXI)
To: Remedy
Among about 1000 others...
Additions:
Ellis, Edward S., A.M. and Horne, Charles F., M.S., Ph.D. The Story of the Greatest Nations. New York: Francis R. Niglutsch, 1907.
Heilman, Robert B. Magic in the Web: Action and Language in Othello, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1956.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan: with selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668. Ed. Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Sickness Unto Death. Trans. Alastair Hannay. New York : Penguin, 1989.
Kaufmann, Walter. Tragedy and Philosophy. New York: Doubleday, 1968.
Lenson, David. Achilles Choice, Examples of Modern Tragedy. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Lewis, William Dodge, A.M., Ph.D., Litt.D., Henry Seidel Canby, Ph.D., Thomas Kite Brown, Jr., Ph.D.; Eds. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1927.
Nave, Orville J., A.M., D.D., LL.D., chaplain in the Army of the United States. Nave's Topical Bible; A Digest of the Holy Scriptures. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1897.
Naville, Edouard, trans. Egyptian Book of the Dead of the XVIII to XX Dynasties, Berlin,
1886.
Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Rpr. First Vintage Books Edition, September 1991, New York.
Paglia, Camille. Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s.
http://www.bu.edu/arion/paglia_cults00.htm (An expanded version of a lecture delivered on 26 March 2002 at Yale University, sponsored by the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale.)
Potts, L.J. Aristotle on the Art of Fiction. London: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Rand, Ayn. The Ayn Rand Lexicon. Ed. Harry Binswanger. New York: Penguin, 1988.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. New York: Stein and Day, 1980.
Velikovsky, Immanuel. Oedipus and Akhnaten; Myth and History. New York: Doubleday, 1960.
West, Willis Mason. The Ancient World. Revised edition. New York: Allyn and Bacon,
1913.
Williams, Raymond. Modern Tragedy, Essays on the idea of tragedy in life and in the drama, and on modern tragic writing from Ibsen to Tennessee Williams. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966.
To: Remedy
A fine list. I'm only now coming to realize how important Aristotle was for the Western mind. If I were going to add something, I'd say Shakespeare and some Greek tragedy. Philosophers, theologians, and scientists can explain how the world works. Poets, though, can show us how it often doesn't. The ancient conviction of order, unity, harmony and permanence can be the touchstone of our view of the world, but we also need the modern knowledge of disorder, multiplicity, variety and change to understand it.
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06/01/2003 7:58:00 PM PDT
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