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Get ‘Edjicated’ and Save Yourself Some Money
A university, or a college education is expensive. There is nothing wrong with a “good” liberal arts education. I’m not talking about a philosophy department that features Angela Davis, or the latest new shiny platitudes.
As Lord Acton said: “Nothing is more irritating than the discovery of the pedigree of ideas.”
If you are interested in the pedigree of ideas, I recommend the Rev. F.C. Copleston’s series, The History of Philosophy. It was written for Catholic seminarians. It is more comprehensive than Will and Ariel Durant’s commentary on philosophy. The cost is about $180. Expensive, yes, but not as expensive as three or four years of college tuition.
If you want to understand the Ukrainians, I recommend The Harvest of Sorrow. Written by the late great Robert Conquest. If you want to understand the banal faceless statist, I recommend The Great Terror. Also written by Robert Conquest.
These books are available on Amazon.
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(But do read the Coplestone books, or read original sources, or both.)
I would hope anyone who needs your help as they read through Copelston would send you a check for your help and guidance.
All too true.
And a lot of good education can happen for free, or for cheap.
No one gave me an education. I took it when no one was looking.
That’s the only way the Left allows it these days.
There is always the opportunity cost. 4 years of effort and $100,000 is a significant outlay. I view everything after 10th grade as vocational education. Choose wisely.
That said, the book series looks excellent. Your local library probably has a set. If they don’t buy them one :)
A good education always costs time and attention.
Some of the books are available online (free). Or it is a similar collection by the same person.
And you can do it on your schedule, not the college’s or the professors’.
Well said. Correct.
I often had need of Copleston and his grasp and clarity of prose were unfailing. It is so much easier nowadays when encountering Kant, Hegel or Kierkegaard that the student only has to determine whether they were white males and owned slaves.
I was blessed with a college education at a tiny college that did not survive the Eighties, that I was too dumb to appreciate at the time. That said, the best thing it did was point me in directions to learn things on my own. The best education is autodidactic.
Be careful not to end up like David Carradine.
A Jesuit. Rahe wept.