PERMANENT FACULTY

The authors of the Great Books constitute the permanent faculty of the Academy - through their writings they are our primary teachers.  Our staff merely guides students to them, the geniuses of Western Civilization.

The Authors of the Great Books Adam Smith Aeschylus Aquinas Archimedes Aristophanes Aristotle Augustine Austen Bacon Balzac Barth Beckett Bergson Berkeley Bohr Boswell Brecht Calvin Cather Cervantes Chaucer Chekhov Conrad Copernicus Dante Darwin Descartes Dewey Dickens Diderot Dobzhansky Dostoevsky   Eddington Einstein Engels Epictetus Erasmus Euclid Euripides Faraday Faulkner Fitzgerald Frazer Freud Galen Galileo George Eliot Gibbon Gilbert Goethe Hardy Harvey Hegel Heidegger Heisenberg Hemingway Henry James Herodotus Hippocrates Hobbes Homer Huizinga Hume Huygens   Ibsen J.S. Mill Joyce Kafka Kant Kepler Keynes Kierkegaard Lavoisier Lawrence Levi-Strauss Locke Lucretius Machiavelli Mann Marcus Aurelius Marx Melville Milton Moliére Montaigne Montesquieu Newton Nicomachus Nietzsche O'Neill Orwell Pascal Pirandello Planck Plato Plotinus   Plutarch Poincare Proust Ptolemy Rabelais Racine Rousseau Russell Schrodinger Shakespeare Shaw Sophocles Spinoza Swift T.S. Eliot Tacitus Tawney Thucydides Tocqueville Tolstoy Twain Veblen Virgil Voltaire Waddington Weber Whitehead Whitehead William James Wittgenstein Woolf

"Either ethics must be restored to school curricula or realistic hope of restoring morality must be abandoned until that happens."

ETHICS (9th to 12th grade) Highly Recommended!
"Ethics has as its basic premise the idea that morality is permanently and essentially inscribed in human life and that each person constantly faces moments of decision. There is danger in our being subject to the pressures of different ideologies and customs, but when we know the foundations of ethics, we become more sensitive to moral issues and the moral implications of our decisions."