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Painting As a Pastime

Painting As a Pastime

Author: Winston Churchill
Genres: Essay, Non-Fiction, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #82, Abby Wahl

The perfect antidote to his 'Black Dog', a depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to painting with gusto. Picking up a paintbrush for the first time at the age of forty, Winston Churchill found in painting a passion that was to remain his constant companion. This glorious essay exudes his compulsion for a hobby that allowed him peace during his dark days, and richly rewarded a nation with a treasure trove of work.

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Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation

Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation

Author: Josef Pieper
Genres: Christian, Christian Living, Essay, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #19, #19 Topical Discussion, #5, #5 Scholé Every Day, #62, #62 Topical Discussion, #72, #72 Topical Discussion, #73, #73 Scholé Every Day, #85, #85 Topical Discussion, Mystie Winckler

The popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty.

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Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Author: Josef Pieper
Series: Carpe Librum
Genres: Christian, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #10 Scholé Every Day, #100, #100 Topical Discussion, #144, #144 Scholé Every Day, #150, #150 Topical Discussion, #16, #16 Topical Discussion, #19, #19 Scholé Every Day, #21, #21 Topical Discussion, #30, #30 Topical Discussion, #40, #40 Topical Discussion, #41, #41 Scholé Every Day, #45, #45 Topical Discussion, #5 Scholé Every Day, #58, #58 Topical Discussion, #61, #61 Scholé Every Day, #63, #63 Topical Discussion, #73, #73 Scholé Every Day, #85, #85 Topical Discussion, #9, Brandy Vencel, Carpe Librum Booklist, Guest Picks, Mystie Winckler, Pam Barnhill

One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure -- a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. Pieper maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture -- and ourselves.

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How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Author: Francis A. Schaeffer
Genres: Christian Living, Education, Philosophical, Schole, Sociology, Theology
Tags: #117, #117 Topical Discussion, #120, #120 Scholé Every Day, #131, #131 Scholé Every Day, #49, #49 Topical Discussion, #53, #53 Scholé Every Day, #63, #63 Scholé Every Day, Abby Wahl, Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, Pam Barnhill

Drawing upon forty years of study in theology, philosophy, history, sociology and the arts, Dr. Schaeffer contemplates the reasons for modern society's sorry state of affairs and argues for total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning.

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Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education

Author: Stratford Caldecott
Series: Carpe Librum
Genres: Christian Living, Education, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #11, #11 Scholé Every Day, #22, #22 Topical Discussion, #23, #23 Scholé Every Day, #38, #38 Topical Discussion, #49, #49 Topical Discussion, #54, #54 Topical Discussion, #60, #60 Topical Discussion, #97 Topical Discussion, Carpe Librum Booklist, Mystie Winckler

What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational steps every student must take towards conversion of heart and mind, so that a Catholic Faith can be lived out in unabashed pursuit of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. Beauty in the Word is a unique contribution to bringing these bountiful aspects of the Real back to the center of learning, where they rightfully belong. If your concern is for the true meaning of education for your children, here is the place to begin.

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Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education

Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education

Author: David V. Hicks
Genres: Education, Non-Fiction, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #10, #10 Topical Discussion, #100, #100 Topical Discussion, #103, #103 Topical Discussion, #111, #111 Topical Discussion, #112, #112 Topical Discussion, #113, #113 Topical Discussion, #121, #121 Topical Discussion, #13, #13 Scholé Every Day, #136, #136 Topical Discussion, #19, #19 Scholé Every Day, #27, #27 Topical Discussion, #29, #29 Topical Discussion, #32, #32 Topical Discussion, #33, #33 Scholé Every Day, #36, #36 Scholé Every Day, #42, #42 Topical Discussion, #47, #47 Topical Discussion, #48, #48 Topical Discussion, #50, #50 Topical Discussion, #54, #54 Topical Discussion, #58, #58 Scholé Every Day, #59, #59 Topical Discussion, #63, #63 Topical Discussion, #66, #66 Topical Discussion, #69, #69 Topical Discussion, #70, #70 Topical Discussion, #73, #73 Topical Discussion, #91, #91 Topical Discussion, Brandy Vencel, Karen Glass, Mystie Winckler, Recommended Books

A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.

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The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid

The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid

Authors: Homer, Virgil
Genres: Old Book, Reading, Schole
Tags: #139, #139 Topical Discussion, #54, #54 Topical Discussion

ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.

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A Short History of the World

A Short History of the World

Author: J. M. Roberts
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Schole
Tags: #69, #69 Scholé Every Day, Mystie Winckler

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Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000

Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000

Author: Paul Johnson
Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Schole
Tags: #141, #141 Topical Discussion, #151, #151 Scholé Every Day, #65, #65 Scholé Every Day, #69, #69 Scholé Every Day, #70, #70 Topical Discussion, #72, #72 Scholé Every Day, #78, #78 Topical Discussion, Brandy Vencel, Mystie Winckler, Sistership Book Club Pick

The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.

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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Genres: Education, History, Non-Fiction, Schole
Tags: #20, #20 Scholé Every Day, #32, #32 Topical Discussion, #69, #69 Scholé Every Day, #78, #78 Scholé Every Day, Mystie Winckler

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.

This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”―literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts―to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.

13 illustrations, 80 maps

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Hard Times

Hard Times

Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: Novel, Reading, Schole
Tags: #69, #69 Scholé Every Day, Brandy Vencel

Hard Times is perhaps the archetypal Dickens novel, full as it is with family difficulties, estrangement, rotten values and unhappiness. It was published in 1854 and it is the story of the family of Thomas Gradgrind, and occurs in the imaginary Coketown, an industrial city inspired by Preston. Gradgrind is a man obsessed with misguided ‘Utilitarian’ values that make him trust facts, statistics and practicality more than emotion and is based upon James Mill (the Utilitarian leader). He directs his own children, Louisa and Tom, in this same way: enforcing an artless existence upon them.

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Poetic Knowledge

Poetic Knowledge

Author: James S. Taylor
Genres: Education, Philosophical, Schole
Tags: #20, #20 Topical Discussion, #33, #33 Scholé Every Day, #42, #42 Topical Discussion, #63, #63 Topical Discussion, #66, #66 Topical Discussion, #68, #68 Topical Discussion, #69, #69 Scholé Every Day, #73, #73 Topical Discussion, Brandy Vencel, Karen Glass

Reveals the neglected mode of knowing and learning, from Socrates to the middle ages and beyond, that relies more on the integrated powers of sensory experience and intuition, rather than on modern narrow scientific models of education.

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