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    The best books on Philology, recommended by James Turner

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    The best books on Philology - Ptolemaic Alexandria by P.M. Fraser

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    Ptolemaic Alexandria
    by P.M. Fraser
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    The best books on Philology - Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship by Anthony Grafton

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    Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship
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    The best books on Philology - Prolegomena to Homer by Friedrich August Wolf

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    Prolegomena to Homer
    by Friedrich August Wolf
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    The best books on Philology - Lectures on the Religion of the Semites by William Robertson Smith

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    Lectures on the Religion of the Semites
    by William Robertson Smith
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    The best books on Philology - The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton by James Turner

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    The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton
    by James Turner

    • Intellectual historian James Turner describes how the once vast and unified field of philology was chopped up in the 20th century to make the different disciplines of the humanities.

  • The best books on Philology - Ptolemaic Alexandria by P.M. Fraser
  • The best books on Philology - Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship by Anthony Grafton
  • The best books on Philology - Prolegomena to Homer by Friedrich August Wolf
  • The best books on Philology - Lectures on the Religion of the Semites by William Robertson Smith
  • The best books on Philology - The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton by James Turner

The best books on Philology, recommended by James Turner

Intellectual historian James Turner describes how the once vast and unified field of philology was chopped up in the 20th century to make the different disciplines of the humanities.

The best books on Philology, recommended by James Turner

    The best books on Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

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    The best books on Virtue - The Symposium by Plato

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    The Symposium
    by Plato
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    The best books on Virtue - The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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    The Nicomachean Ethics
    by Aristotle
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    The best books on Virtue - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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    Sense and Sensibility
    by Jane Austen
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    The best books on Virtue - After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre

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    After Virtue
    by Alasdair MacIntyre
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    The best books on Virtue - Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot

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    Natural Goodness
    by Philippa Foot

    • British philosopher Edward Skidelsky tells us about virtue from Plato to the modern day, and says Jane Austen got it right when she wrote about passion

  • The best books on Virtue - The Symposium by Plato
  • The best books on Virtue - The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • The best books on Virtue - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • The best books on Virtue - After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
  • The best books on Virtue - Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot

The best books on Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

British philosopher Edward Skidelsky tells us about virtue from Plato to the modern day, and says Jane Austen got it right when she wrote about passion

The best books on Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

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