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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
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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
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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
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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

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 Virtue, recommended by Edward Skidelsky

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    The best books on Virtue - The Symposium by Plato

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

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

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

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

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    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

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