Since 2010 I have been inspired by the idea of liberal education: the ancient ideal of becoming educated to intellectual and political freedom. These are some excellent texts that have helped me become ever more free in my thinking and living.
The List
- Aristotle: Prior Analytics, translated and with commentary by Robin Smith
- Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler
- Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett
- Great Books of the Western World, edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler (hardback: a set of 54 volumes)
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- How to Think About the Great Ideas from the Great Books of Western Civilization by Mortimer J. Adler, edited by Max Weisman
- The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Conceptions of Freedom, volumes I and II, by Mortimer J. Adler
- The Idea of Happiness by V. J. McGill
- The Idea of Justice by Otto A. Bird
- The Idea of Love by Robert G. Hazo
- The Idea of Progress by Charles Van Doren
- The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph
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