In Front of University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall, Looking East Onto the South Sidewalk Of Main Quad (Quadrangle). Swift Hall Is At Right.

…“Of all the thousands of students at the University of Chicago who had studied the ancient classics it’s doubtful that there was ever a more dedicated one. The main struggle of the University’s Great Books program was against the modern belief that the classics [Classic Greece in general and of one Classic Greek in particular—Aristotle.] had nothing of any real importance to say to a twentieth-century society. To be sure, the majority of students taking the courses must have played the game of nice manners with their teachers, and accepted, for purposes of understanding, the prerequisite belief that the ancients had something meaningful to say. But Phædrus, playing no games at all, didn’t just accept this idea. He passionately and fanatically knew it. He came to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every kind of invective he could think of, not because they were irrelevant but for exactly the opposite reason. The more he studied, the more convinced he became that no one had yet told the damage to this world that had resulted from our unconscious acceptance of their thought.“ (Cont. Next)

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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