Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum / Resources

**Posted by Jeremy Taylor** 6/28/2015 9:07 pm

Here is the place to post important resources on classical, liberal and philosophic education:

One of the best introductions to the importance of the correct intellectual tools for study is Dorothy Sayers's The Lost Tools of Learning.

**Posted by DanielCC** 6/29/2015 5:46 pm

A Brazilian Traditionalist and Scholastic philosopher I was very keen on back in the day use to wax lyrical about A. G. Sertillanges' The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions and Methods. I have as yet to check it out myself but I see copies can be bought cheaply from Amazon plus the text is relatively easy to find in PDF format online.

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**Posted by Etzelnik** 6/29/2015 5:48 pm

Jeremy Taylor wrote:
Here is the place to post important resources on classical, liberal and philosophic education:

One of the best introductions to the importance of the correct intellectual tools for study is Dorothy Sayers's The Lost Tools of Learning.

This essay has literally been my guide in my self-education.

**Posted by Etzelnik** 7/01/2015 1:41 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-Western-World-Mortimer/dp/0852295316

This set is the most amazing thing ever for a beginner, or even an advanced student! I'm trying to buy it myself but I can't find anyone who's shipping it to Israel.

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**Posted by Mateus** 7/01/2015 8:31 pm

DanielCC wrote:
A Brazilian Traditionalist and Scholastic philosopher I was very keen on back in the day use to wax lyrical about A. G. Sertillanges' The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions and Methods. I have as yet to check it out myself but I see copies can be bought cheaply from Amazon plus the text is relatively easy to find in PDF format online.

Are you from Brazil?

**Posted by DanielCC** 7/02/2015 8:42 am

Mateus wrote:
DanielCC wrote:
A Brazilian Traditionalist and Scholastic philosopher I was very keen on back in the day use to wax lyrical about A. G. Sertillanges' The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions and Methods. I have as yet to check it out myself but I see copies can be bought cheaply from Amazon plus the text is relatively easy to find in PDF format online.

Are you from Brazil?

No, I’m afraid; I don’t even speak Portuguese. I first read the selection of Carvalho’s essays available in English on his website, and then later on went through all others with the help of Google Translate and a dictionary. I read a whole book of his that way even (The Garden of Affliction – analysing the legacy of Epicureanism).

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/

EDIT: With that in mind I'm going to post Carvalho's own suggested reading list. It's in Portuguese as one might expected but it's easy to get most of the titles from the author names:

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/textos/livros.htm

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**Posted by Mateus** 7/02/2015 6:32 pm

DanielCC wrote:
Mateus wrote:
DanielCC wrote:
A Brazilian Traditionalist and Scholastic philosopher I was very keen on back in the day use to wax lyrical about A. G. Sertillanges' The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions and Methods. I have as yet to check it out myself but I see copies can be bought cheaply from Amazon plus the text is relatively easy to find in PDF format online.

Are you from Brazil?
No, I’m afraid; I don’t even speak Portuguese. I first read the selection of Carvalho’s essays available in English on his website, and then later on went through all others with the help of Google Translate and a dictionary. I read a whole book of his that way even (The Garden of Affliction – analysing the legacy of Epicureanism).

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english/

EDIT: With that in mind I'm going to post Carvalho's own suggested reading list. It's in Portuguese as one might expected but it's easy to get most of the titles from the author names:

http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/textos/livros.htm

Interesting. I would never expect to someone from another country to know Carvalho's work. If anyone is interested in a translation of any title of the link, please ask me.

**Posted by Karl3125** 7/09/2015 5:56 pm

Also worth noting -

John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

Sister Miriam Joseph, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

**Posted by Jacobite** 7/10/2015 5:20 am

A nice logic text from a Scholastic point of view is Principles of Logic, by George Hayward Joyce. You can read it at https://archive.org/details/principleslogic00joycgoog, or get a cheap hardcopy from Amazon (Forgotten books Classic reprint series).

His Principles of Natural Theology is also very good.

https://www3.nd.edu/~maritain/jmc/etext/pnt.htm

**Posted by iwpoe** 7/10/2015 5:47 am

For those who want to take a shot at learning Latin, I like Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata