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A rare books curator at Boston College has been accused by the FBI of trying to sell two 15th century works of Thomas Aquinas and other valuable books stolen from the school, the Associated Press reported.
Maimonides conceived his Mishneh Torah as a single unifying law code for Judaism. Although it never became that, his work substantially affected every later development in Jewish scholarship. By many accounts, Maimonides' legal compendium provided a strength that enabled Judaism to avoid factionalism during the Muslim and Christian persecutions of...
In assessing the perpetual thinking machine that goes by the name of Mortimer Adler, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says, "There is something marvelously relentless about him." Both the marvel and the relentlessness shine through in Adler's newly published Ten Philosophical Mistakes (Macmillan; $12.95), which takes to task a Who...
Adler's personal hero-philosopher is Aristotle, whose Ethics Adler has read no fewer than 25 times. While conceding advances in logic, political theory and the philosophy of science, Adler argues that, except for Aquinas' massive Summa Theologiae, barely an ethical or metaphysical yard has been gained in all the...
THE BOOK is the bittersweet tale of one boy's love-hate relationship with Dartmouth. Hart entered the school in 1977 and found himself, happily, rooming with Jeff Kemp, now quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams and the son of congressman Jack. There were dignified professors with whom to study...