The Classical Moment: Selected Essays on Knowledge and Its Pleasures

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St. Augustine's Press, 2014 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 208 pages
The essay is one of the great inventions of the human mind. It can talk about anything and everything. It can be lightsome or solemn. It can be witty or informative. Above all, it is short. It likes the passage in which Socrates told Callicles in the Gorgi as to make his answers brief. Yet, we can find in essays things we need and want to know. Aquinas often managed to make the most profound arguments in two paragraphs. Samuel Johnson did the same.

About the author (2014)

James V. Schall, S.J., is professor of political theory at Georgetown University, and author of numerous books (and numberless articles), including, from St. Augustine's Press, The Regensburg Lecture, The Sum Total of Human Happiness, and the forthcoming The Modern Age.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Classical Moment: Selected Essays on Knowledge and Its Pleasures
AuthorJames V. Schall
PublisherSt. Augustine's Press, 2014
ISBN1587311240, 9781587311246
Length208 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference
Literary Collections / Essays
Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / General
  
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