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Great Books
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The great books are those books that are thought to constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western
culture. Specified sets of great books typically range from 100150, though they differ according to purpose and
context. For instance, some lists are built to be read by undergraduates in a college semester system (130 books,
Torrey Honors Institute),[1] some are compiled to be sold as a single set of volumes (500 books, Mortimer Adler),
while some lists aim at a thorough literary criticism (2,400 books, Harold Bloom).[2]
Contents
1 Concept
2 Origin
3 Program
3.1 Universities
4 Controversy
5 Series
6 Sample list
7 Television
8 See also
9 References
10 Sources
11 External links
Concept
The great books are those that tradition, and various institutions and authorities, have regarded as constituting or
best expressing the foundations of Western culture (the Western canon is a similar but broader designation);
derivatively the term also refers to a curriculum or method of education based around a list of such books.
Mortimer Adler lists three criteria for including a book on the list:
the book has contemporary significance; that is, it has relevance to the problems and issues of our times;
the book is inexhaustible; it can be read again and again with benefit; "This is an exacting criterion, an ideal
that is fully attained by only a small number of the 511 works that we selected. It is approximated in varying
degrees by the rest."[3]
the book is relevant to a large number of the great ideas and great issues that have occupied the minds of
thinking individuals for the last 25 centuries.[4]
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Origin
Thomas Jefferson,[5] well known for his interest in higher education, frequently composed great books lists for his
friends and correspondents, for example, for Peter Carr in 1785[6] and again in 1787.[7]
In 1909, Harvard University published a 51-volume great books series, titled the Harvard Classics. These volumes
are now in the public domain.
The Great Books of the Western World came about as the result of a discussion among American academics and
educators, starting in the 1920s and 1930s and begun by Prof. John Erskine of Columbia University,[8] about how
to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary
learning. These academics and educators included Robert Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Scott
Buchanan, Jacques Barzun, and Alexander Meiklejohn. The view among them was that the emphasis on narrow
specialization in American colleges had harmed the quality of higher education by failing to expose students to the
important products of Western civilization and thought.
They were at odds both with much of the existing educational establishment and with contemporary educational
theory. Educational theorists like Sidney Hook[9] and John Dewey (see pragmatism) disagreed with the premise
that there was crossover in education.
Program
The Great Books Program is a curriculum that makes use of this list of texts. As much as possible, students rely on
primary sources. The emphasis is on open discussion with limited guidance by a professor, facilitator, or tutor.
Students are also expected to write papers.
In 1920, Professor Erskine taught the first course based on the "great books" program, titled "General Honors", at
Columbia University.[10][11] He helped mold its core curriculum. It initially failed, however, shortly after its
introduction due to fallings-out between the senior faculty over the best ways to conduct classes and due to
concerns about the rigor of the courses. Thus junior faculty including Mark Van Doren and Mortimer Adler after
1923, taught a part of the course. The course was discontinued in 1928, though later reconstituted. Adler left for
the University of Chicago in 1929, where he continued his work on the theme, and along with the University
president, Robert M. Hutchins, held an annual seminar of great books. In 1937, when Mark Van Doren redesigned
the course, it was already being taught at St. John's College, Annapolis, besides University of Chicago. This course
later became Humanities A for freshmen, and subsequently evolved into Literature Humanities.[10] Survivors,
however, include Columbia's Core Curriculum, the Common Core at Chicago, and the Core Curriculum at Boston
University, each heavily focused on the "great books" of the Western canon.
A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the
United States in the 1920s. The aim of such programs is a return to the Western Liberal Arts tradition in education,
as a corrective to the extreme disciplinary specialisation common within the academy. The essential component of
such programs is a high degree of engagement with whole primary texts, called the Great Books. The curricula of
Great Books programs often follow a canon of texts considered more or less essential to a student's education,
such as Plato's Republic, or Dante's Divine Comedy. Such programs often focus exclusively on Western culture.
Their employment of primary texts dictates an interdisciplinary approach, as most of the Great Books do not fall
neatly under the prerogative of a single contemporary academic discipline. Great Books programs often include
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designated discussion groups as well as lectures, and have small class sizes. In general students in such programs
receive an abnormally high degree of attention from their professors, as part of the overall aim of fostering a
community of learning.
There are only a few true "Great Books Programs" still in operation. These schools focus almost exclusively on the
Great Books Curriculum throughout enrollment and do not offer classes analogous to those commonly offered at
other colleges. The first and best known of these schools is St. John's College in Annapolis and Santa Fe (program
established in 1937);[12] it was followed by Shimer College in Chicago, The Integral Program (http://www.stmarysca.edu/the-integral-program) at Saint Mary's College of California (1955), The College of Saint Mary Magdalen in
Warner, New Hampshire, and Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. More recent schools with this
type of curriculum include Gutenberg College in Eugene, Oregon (est. 1994), Harrison Middleton University in
Tempe, Arizona (est. 1998), Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming (est. 2005), and Imago Dei College
in Oak Glen, California (est. 2010). The University of Notre Dame's Program of Liberal Studies, established in
1950, is a highly regarded Great Books Program that operates as a separate institution within the College of Liberal
Arts. At the high school level, the Old Western Culture (http://www.romanroadsmedia.com/store/old-westernculture.php) curriculum was developed by Wesley Callihan, a well-known classicist, speaker, and an author of
Classical Christian Education and the Homeschool (http://www.canonpress.org/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?
idproduct=311&idcategory=0).
The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas (http://www.thegreatideas.org) advances the Great Conversation found
in the great books by providing Adler's guidance, and resource materials through both live and on-line seminars,
educational and philosophical consultation, international presence on the Internet, access to the Center's library
collection of books, essays, articles, journals and audio/video programs. Center programs are unique in that they do
not replicate other existing programs either started or developed by Adler.
Universities
Over 100 institutions of higher learning in the United States, Canada, and Europe maintain some version of a Great
Books Program as an option for students.[13] Among these are:
United States
Azusa Pacific University Honors College
Baylor University, Great Texts[14]
Biola University, Torrey Honors Institute[15]
Columbia University[10]
East Carolina University Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences[16]
Faulkner University
Franciscan University of Steubenville[17]
Gutenberg College[18]
Harrison Middleton University[19]
Houston Baptist University, Honors College[20]
Mercer University[21]
New York University, Gallatin Program
Palm Beach Atlantic University[22]
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Palm Beach Atlantic University[22]
Pepperdine University[23]
Saint Mary's College of California (Moraga), Integral Liberal Arts Program[24]
Shimer College[25]
St. John's College[26]
The College of Saint Mary Magdalen[27]
The Templeton Honors College at Eastern University[28]
Thomas Aquinas College[29]
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts[30]
University of Chicago[31]
University of Dallas[32]
University of San Francisco, St. Ignatius Institute[33]
University of Notre Dame[34]
University of Texas at Austin, Thomas Jefferson Center[35]
Wyoming Catholic College[36]
Canada
St. Thomas University (New Brunswick)[37]
University of King's College ("Foundation Year Programme")[38]
The College of the Humanities at Carleton University, Ottawa [39]
The Liberal Arts College at Concordia University, Montreal [40]
The Arts One Program at the University of British Columbia[41]
Europe
Catholic University of Portugal[42]
Asia
Shalem College (Israel)[43]
Controversy
In contemporary scholarship, the great books curriculum was drawn into the popular debate about multiculturalism,
traditional education, the "culture war," and the role of the intellectual in American life. Much of this debate centered
on reactions to the publication of The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 by Allan Bloom.[44]
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Series
The Great Books of the Western World is a hardcover 60-volume collection (originally 54 volumes) of the books
on the great books list (about 517 individual works). Many of the books in the collection were translated into
English for the first time. A prominent feature of the collection is a two-volume Syntopicon that includes essays
written by Mortimer Adler on 102 "great ideas." Following each essay is an extensive outline of the idea with page
references to relevant passages throughout the collection. Familiar to many Americans, the collection is available
from Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc., which owns the copyright.
Shortly after Adler retired from the Great Books Foundation in 1989, a second edition (1990) of the Great Books
of the Western World was published; it included more Hispanic and female authors and, for the first time, works
by black authors.[45] During his tenure as president of the Foundation, Adler had resisted such additions.[46]
We did not base our selections on an author's nationality, religion, politics, or field of study; nor on an
author's race or gender. Great books were not chosen to make up quotas of any kind; there was no
"affirmative action" in the process ... we chose the great books on the basis of their relevance to at
least 25 of the 102 great ideas. Many of the great books are relevant to a much larger number of the
102 great ideas, as many as 75 or more great ideas, a few to all 102 great ideas. In sharp contrast are
the good books that are relevant to less than 10 or even as few as 4 or 5 great ideas. We placed such
books in the lists of Recommended Readings to be found in the last section in each of the 102
chapters of the "Syntopicon". Here readers will find many twentieth-century female authors, black
authors, and Latin American authors whose works we recommended but did not include in the second
edition of the great books.[3]
Sample list
Any recommended set of great books is expected to change with the times, as reflected in the following statement
by Robert Hutchins:
In the course of history ... new books have been written that have won their place in the list. Books
once thought entitled to belong to it have been superseded; and this process of change will continue as
long as men can think and write. It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it
lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the
most recent contributions to the Great Conversation.[47]
The following is an example list, in chronological order, compiled from How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
(1940), and How to Read a Book, 2nd ed. by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren (1972):
1. Homer Iliad; Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus Tragedies
4. Sophocles Tragedies
5. Herodotus Histories
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6. Euripides Tragedies
7. Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes Comedies
10. Plato Dialogues
11. Aristotle Works
12. Epicurus "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus"
13. Euclid Elements
14. Archimedes Works
15. Apollonius Conics
16. Cicero Works (esp. Orations; On Friendship; On Old Age; Republic; Laws; Tusculan Disputations; Offices)
17. Lucretius On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil Works (esp. Aeneid)
19. Horace Works (esp. Odes and Epodes; The Art of Poetry)
20. Livy History of Rome
21. Ovid Works (esp. Metamorphoses)
22. Quintilian Institutes of Oratory
23. Plutarch Parallel Lives; Moralia
24. Tacitus Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory)
25. Nicomachus of Gerasa Introduction to Arithmetic
26. Epictetus Discourses; Enchiridion
27. Ptolemy Almagest
28. Lucian Works (esp. The Way to Write History; The True History; The Sale of Creeds; Alexander the Oracle
Monger; Charon; The Sale of Lives; The Fisherman; Dialogue of the Gods; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods; Dialogues
of the Dead)
29. Marcus Aurelius Meditations
30. Galen On the Natural Faculties
31. The New Testament
32. Plotinus The Enneads
33. St. Augustine "On the Teacher"; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
34. The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied
35. The Song of Roland
36. The Saga of Burnt Njl
37. Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed
38. St. Thomas Aquinas Of Being and Essence; Summa Contra Gentiles; Of the Governance of Rulers; Summa
Theologica
39. Dante Alighieri The New Life (La Vita Nuova); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy
40. Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
41. Thomas Kempis The Imitation of Christ
42. Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks
43. Niccol Machiavelli The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
44. Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly; Colloquies
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44. Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly;
Colloquies
45. Nicolaus Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

46. Thomas More Utopia
47. Martin Luther Table Talk; Three Treatises
48. Franois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
49. John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion
50. Michel de Montaigne Essays
51. William Gilbert On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies
52. Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
53. Edmund Spenser Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
54. Francis Bacon Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
55. William Shakespeare Poetry and Plays
56. Galileo Galilei Starry Messenger; Two New Sciences
57. Johannes Kepler The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Harmonices Mundi
58. William Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; Generation
of Animals
59. Grotius The Law of War and Peace
60. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan; Elements of Philosophy
61. Ren Descartes Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First
Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions of the Soul
62. Corneille Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna)
63. John Milton Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes)
64. Molire Comedies (esp. The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself;
Tartuffe; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Imaginary Invalid; The Affected Ladies)
65. Blaise Pascal The Provincial Letters; Penses; Scientific Treatises
66. Boyle The Sceptical Chymist
67. Christiaan Huygens Treatise on Light
68. Benedict de Spinoza Political Treatises; Ethics
69. John Locke A Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding;
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
70. Jean Baptiste Racine Tragedies (esp. Andromache; Phaedra; Athalie (Athaliah))
71. Isaac Newton Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Opticks
72. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays on Human Understanding; Monadology
73. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
74. Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub; A Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest
Proposal
75. William Congreve The Way of the World
76. George Berkeley A New Theory of Vision; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
77. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man
78. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu Persian Letters; The Spirit of the Laws
79. Voltaire Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
80. Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
81. Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets
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81. Samuel Johnson The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets
82. David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding; History of England
83. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discourse on Inequality; On Political Economy; Emile; The Social Contract; Confessions
84. Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
85. Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
86. William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England
87. Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals; Critique of Practical
Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
88. Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
89. James Boswell Journal; The Life of Samuel Johnson
90. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier Trait lmentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
91. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison Federalist Papers (together with the Articles of Confederation;
United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence)
92. Jeremy Bentham Comment on the Commentaries; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation;
Theory of Fictions
93. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust; Poetry and Truth
94. Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population
95. John Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy
96. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Analytical Theory of Heat
97. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Phenomenology of Spirit; Science of Logic; Elements of the Philosophy of
Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
98. William Wordsworth Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude)
99. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems (esp. Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ); Biographia Literaria
100. David Ricardo On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

101. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice; Emma
102. Carl von Clausewitz On War
103. Stendhal The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
104. Franois Guizot History of Civilization in France
105. Lord Byron Don Juan
106. Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism
107. Michael Faraday The Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
108. Nikolai Lobachevsky Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
109. Charles Lyell Principles of Geology
110. Auguste Comte The Positive Philosophy
111. Honor de Balzac Works (esp. Le Pre Goriot; Le Cousin Pons; Eugnie Grandet; Cousin Bette; Csar
Birotteau)
112. Ralph Waldo Emerson Representative Men; Essays; Journal
113. Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
114. Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
115. John Stuart Mill A System of Logic; Principles of Political Economy; On Liberty; Considerations on
Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
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116. Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
117. William Makepeace Thackeray Works (esp. Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond; The Virginians;
Pendennis)
118. Charles Dickens Works (esp. Pickwick Papers; Our Mutual Friend; David Copperfield; Dombey and Son;
Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Hard Times)
119. Claude Bernard Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
120. George Boole The Laws of Thought
121. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience; Walden
122. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Das Kapital (Capital); The Communist Manifesto
123. George Eliot Adam Bede; Middlemarch
124. Herman Melville Typee; Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
125. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
126. Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary; Three Stories
127. Henry Thomas Buckle A History of Civilization in England
128. Francis Galton Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development
129. Bernhard Riemann The Hypotheses of Geometry
130. Henrik Ibsen Plays (esp. Peer Gynt; Brand; Hedda Gabler; Emperor and Galilean; A Doll's House; The Wild
Duck; The Master Builder)
131. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace; Anna Karenina; "What Is Art?"; Twenty-Three Tales
132. Richard Dedekind Theory of Numbers
133. Wilhelm Wundt Physiological Psychology; Outline of Psychology
134. Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court; The Mysterious Stranger
135. Henry Adams History of the United States; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams;
Degradation of Democratic Dogma
136. Charles Peirce Chance, Love, and Logic; Collected Papers
137. William Sumner Folkways
138. Oliver Wendell Holmes The Common Law; Collected Legal Papers
139. William James The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; A Pluralistic
Universe; Essays in Radical Empiricism
140. Henry James The American; The Ambassadors
141. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality;
The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist
142. Georg Cantor Transfinite Numbers
143. Jules Henri Poincar Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method; The Foundations of Science
144. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays to the Theory of Sex; Introduction to Psychoanalysis;
Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The Ego and the Id; Civilization
and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
145. George Bernard Shaw Plays and Prefaces
146. Max Planck Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific
Autobiography
147. Henri Bergson Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and
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147. Henri Bergson Time and Free Will; Matter
and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and
Religion
148. John Dewey How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty; Logic
The Theory of Inquiry
149. Alfred North Whitehead A Treatise on Universal Algebra; An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the
Modern World; Process and Reality; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
150. George Santayana The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being (which discusses the
Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places
151. Vladimir Lenin Imperialism; The State and Revolution
152. Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past)
153. Bertrand Russell Principles of Mathematics; The Problems of Philosophy; Principia Mathematica; The Analysis
of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
154. Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
155. Albert Einstein The Theory of Relativity; Sidelights on Relativity; The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of
Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
156. James Joyce "The Dead" in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
157. Jacques Maritain Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; Freedom and the Modern World; A Preface
to Metaphysics; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
158. Franz Kafka The Trial; The Castle
159. Arnold J. Toynbee A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
160. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
161. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle; Cancer Ward
The original edition of How to Read a Book contained a separate "contemporary list" because "Here one's
judgment must be tentative"[48] All but the following authors were incorporated into the single list of the revised
edition:
1. Ivan Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes
2. Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class; The Higher Learning in America; The Place of
Science in Modern Civilization; Vested Interests and the State of Industrial Arts; Absentee Ownership
and Business Enterprise in Recent Times
3. Franz Boas The Mind of Primitive Man; Anthropology and Modern Life
4. Leon Trotsky The History of the Russian Revolution
Television
In 1954 Mortimer Adler hosted a live weekly television series in San Francisco, comprising 52 half-hour programs
entitled The Great Ideas. These programs were produced by the Institute for Philosophical Research and were
carried as a public service by the American Broadcasting Company, presented by National Educational Television
(NET), the precursor to what is now PBS. Adler bequeathed these films to the Center for the Study of the Great
Ideas, where they are available for purchase. Video Purchase Site
(http://www.thegreatideas.org/mortimer_adler_videos/index.html)
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In 1993 and 1994, The Learning Channel created a series of one hour programs discussing many of the great
books of history and their impact on the world. It was narrated by Donald Sutherland and Morgan Freeman,
amongst others.
See also
Dead white males
Educational perennialism
Banned books
Liberal arts
Western canon
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