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This volume is a collection of essays by various contributors in honor of the late Laurence Berns, Richard Hammond Elliot Tutor Emeritus at St. John's College, Annapolis. The essays address the literary, political, theological, and philosophical themes of his life's work as a scholar, teacher, and constant companion of the "great books." Included are essays interpreting biblical books, as well as books by Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Virgil, Dante, Spinoza, Milton, Rousseau, Darwin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Camus, and H.G. Wells. Like their honoree, the essayists aim at understanding such books as their authors wished them to be understood—for the light they shed on universal and timeless questions about God, nature, and human life which animated the authors themselves and which they saw fit to share, elegantly and eloquently, with thoughtful readers. Each essay is, in its way, a model of how to read and reflect on the writings of the great authors.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I. Athens and Jerusalem
Chapter 1: "In the Beginning . . . "
Chapter 2: The Mazkir
Chapter 3: The Philosophy of Socrates or the Gods the City Believes In
Chapter 4: The Transformation of Courage in Plato's Laches
Part II: Literature Ancient and Modern
Chapter 5: Herodotus and Homer on Helen: An Essay on History and Poetry
Chapter 6: Treason and Parricide
Chapter 7: For Love of One's Teachers: Dante, Virgil, and Paganism
Chapter 8: How One Philosophizes with a Scalpel: Darwin, Nietzsche, and Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau
Chapter 9: Literature and the Moral Universe: Camus's The Stranger and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
Part III: The Turn to the New World
Chapter 10: Spinoza's Defense of the Bible: A Model of Modern Statesmanship
Chapter 11: America's Debt to John Milton
Part IV: The Return to First Things
Chapter 12: The Essence of Babel: Rousseau on the Origin of Languages
Chapter 13: The Domestication of Nature: A Reading of Darwin's The Origin of Species
