In Front of UC’s Cobb Lecture Hall Looking South to Bond Chapel (Left) and Wieboldt Hall (Right). Across the Central Quadrangle.
… Phaedrus Probably Passed This Ivy Covered Chapel Many Times.
… “Adler’s study of evidence, cross-fertilized by a reading of classics of the Western world, resulted in a conviction that human wisdom had advanced relatively little in recent times. He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith. The work of Aquinas and of the Greeks, as interpreted by Aquinas, was to Adler the capstone of the Western intellectual heritage. Therefore they provided a measuring rod for anyone seeking the good books. “ (U. Chicago Cont. Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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