On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It…

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