How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D., is retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University, New York, and author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philosophical books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. He is Founder and CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC and former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA). Dr. Redpath is co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelicum Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler). Former vice president of the American Maritain Association, Dr. Redpath is, also, former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for Editions Rodopi, B.V., former History of Philosophy and Etienne Gilson special series editor for Rodopi; and is currently a member of the editorial board of Brill's Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series.

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How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D., is retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University, New York, and author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philosophical books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. He is Founder and CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC and former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA). Dr. Redpath is co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelicum Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler). Former vice president of the American Maritain Association, Dr. Redpath is, also, former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for Editions Rodopi, B.V., former History of Philosophy and Etienne Gilson special series editor for Rodopi; and is currently a member of the editorial board of Brill's Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series.

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How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

by Peter A. Redpath
How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

How to Read a Difficult Book: A Beginner's Guide to the Lost Art of Philosophical Reading

by Peter A. Redpath

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Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D., is retired Full Professor of Philosophy at St. John's University, New York, and author/editor/co-editor of seventeen philosophical books and many dozens of articles and book reviews. An internationally recognized scholar, he has given over 200 invited guest lectures nationally and internationally. He is Founder and CEO of the Aquinas School of Leadership, LLC and former Founder and Chair of the Thomistic Studies Graduate Concentration in Christian Wisdom for Holy Apostles College and Seminary (USA). Dr. Redpath is co-founder of the Gilson Society (USA) and the International Etienne Gilson Society, the Adler-Aquinas Institute, and the Angelicum Academy and Great Books Academy homeschool programs (both founded with the help of Mortimer J. Adler). Former vice president of the American Maritain Association, Dr. Redpath is, also, former executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) for Editions Rodopi, B.V., former History of Philosophy and Etienne Gilson special series editor for Rodopi; and is currently a member of the editorial board of Brill's Philosophy and Religion (PAR) series.


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ISBN-13: 9780578933870
Publisher: Public Philosophy Press
Publication date: 05/13/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 152
File size: 254 KB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


Foreword


Introduction


Chapter 1     Learning, Tools, Books, and Philosophical Reading


Chapter 2     The Skill of Philosophical Reading


Chapter 3     General Kinds of Books and Kinds of Teaching


Chapter 4 Philosophical Reading

Chapter 5     Three Rules for "Philosophically Reading" any Book


Chapter 6 A Book's General Outline

Chapter 7     Philosophically Reading Theoretical Matters


Chapter 8     Philosophically Reading Matters of Measurement


Chapter 9     Philosophically Reading Practical Matters


Chapter 10   Philosophically Reading Matters of Imaginable Experience


Chapter 11   Philosophically Reading Mixed Matters Conclusion Questions for Study and Discussion


Notes



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