Confucius: Heavenly Wisdom
Confucius is not only one of the great minds of China, but has wielded an influence on the politics and culture of the entire world.
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Confucius is not only one of the great minds of China, but has wielded an influence on the politics and culture of the entire world.
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St. Thomas à Kempis’ “Imitation of Christ” is one of the most influential religious works in history, crossing denominational and even religious lines.
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Herodotus does not give us merely a drily “objective” outlook on the history he relates, but examines the rational and moral character of his subjects.
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St. Thomas More’s conception of education tied it firmly to virtue, and specially to the virtue of humility, which he considered indispensable.
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The life of the imagination, according to Lewis, has the capacity to reflect and communicate divine truth; to divide imagination from reason is foolishness.
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The wheel of fortune, the problem of evil, and the mystery of divine foreknowledge are famous problems; Boethius, in a forgotten book, addressed them all.
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The only defense against the worst is a knowledge of the best. By their ignorance people enfranchise their exploiters. —Wendell Berry
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As one of the principal architects of the French Enlightenment, Voltaire wields an influence on all subsequent world history.
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Dostoevsky remains relevant to our time because he did not bind his concerns to his. He thrills with what Joseph Frank called “eschatological apprehension.”
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Sayers’ work becomes what Woolf calls “a room of one’s own,” a place where she can be at liberty write without thought to the expectations of her sex to marry nor to limit herself to the conventions of her Oxford education.
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