Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation

“I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker…. They tell us about what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue…. I would like to create a book … in which I could tell a person about his life, and about the Good W

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker