Great Books
Western literary canon
Great Books refers to a canon of foundational Western texts considered essential for a liberal education—works by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and others thought to represent enduring ideas and literary achievement.
The term is associated with curricula at certain American colleges and with Mortimer Adler's mid-20th-century educational movement promoting these texts as the basis of intellectual formation.
She spent four years reading the Great Books at St. John's College.
- classicsWorks of lasting value
- Western canonInfluential European literary tradition
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- literatureBody of written works
- reading listCurated book recommendations
Plato · Aristotle · Homer · Socratic method · philosophy · humanities · wisdom · Western · civilization · Iliad · Republic · Shakespeare · Dante · liberal arts · liberal · education · core curriculum · higher education
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- UChicagoMaroons, Hyde Park, Enrico Fermi, Fermi, Milton Friedman
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- Ideasidealism, materialism, empiricism, rationalism, liberalism
Great Bookstrash
Discarded worthless material
bad books · pulp fiction · dreck · schlock · potboilers
Great Bookstabloid journalism
Sensational news prioritizing shock
guilty pleasures · popular fiction · escapist literature · comic books · fan fiction
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