Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montas

Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation Reviews

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  Herr Doktor Oberst

  Specialists may quibble over his summaries, and students may hunger for , but Montas’s account of his love affair with the liberal education is winsome and compelling. If I were king, I’d put him in charge of higher education.
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  Marian V.

  I liked his reflections on Augustine, Socrates, Plato, Freud, Gandhi and the way he wove his personal biography into a book that advocates for the study of great texts by undergraduates. Brilliantly constructed!
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  Dragonkyn master

  Montas takes us on a personal journey through the inner awakening wrought by four foundational thinkers, two from antiquity, and two modern. In this era of wide divisions in our country, we would do well to heed his advice and well structured and convincing
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  jerry

  The book is well written, easy to read, and presents a convincing argument for incorporating a liberal education for all college students. It demonstrates the need of such a foundation no matter what professional direction is sought.
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  Glenith J. Jorgensen

  This book is well written and both an argument for the great books by the great thinkers of the West and a memoir of a personal journey of discovery of their worth.
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  Jorge Soberon

  A very well developed, albeit repetitive, defense of the need of a liberal education loosely based on the "Western canon". Should be read by anyone interested on educating for living well, rather than for acquiring wealth.
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  James J. O'Brien

  I like the idea of studying the corpus of western thought. His chance encounter with a book discarded on a garbage can while walking on the way to school is inspiring.
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  Jessica Hooten

  We need a common education made of the texts that set us free. Roosevelt Montas shows us what that kind of liberal education looks like!