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Thesis
Not nostalgia. Not ideology. Inheritance. Jerusalem gives revelation. Athens gives reason. Rome gives order. Christendom gives synthesis. Not nostalgia. Not ideology. Inheritance. Jerusalem gives revelation. Athens gives reason. Rome gives order. Christendom gives synthesis.

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Guided paths through the inheritance.

The Beginner's Path

  1. 01 The Gospel of Luke
  2. 02 Plato, Apology
  3. 03 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book I
  4. 04 Cicero, On Duties selections
  5. 05 St. Augustine, Confessions
  6. 06 Rule of St. Benedict
  7. 07 Dante, Inferno Canto I
  8. 08 C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

The Christian West

  1. 01 Genesis and Exodus
  2. 02 The Psalms
  3. 03 The Gospel of John
  4. 04 Romans
  5. 05 St. Augustine, City of God selections
  6. 06 St. Benedict, Rule
  7. 07 St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa selections
  8. 08 Dante, Divine Comedy

The Classical World

  1. 01 Homer, Iliad
  2. 02 Sophocles, Antigone
  3. 03 Plato, Republic
  4. 04 Aristotle, Politics
  5. 05 Thucydides
  6. 06 Virgil, Aeneid
  7. 07 Cicero, On Duties

The Crisis of Modernity

  1. 01 Machiavelli, The Prince
  2. 02 Hobbes, Leviathan selections
  3. 03 Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
  4. 04 Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
  5. 05 Marx, Communist Manifesto
  6. 06 Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
  7. 07 Lewis, Abolition of Man

Beauty and Sacred Art

  1. 01 The Psalms
  2. 02 Dante, Paradiso
  3. 03 Aquinas on beauty
  4. 04 Chartres Cathedral
  5. 05 Fra Angelico
  6. 06 Palestrina
  7. 07 Bach, St. Matthew Passion
  8. 08 Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy