October 16 - 9th Meeting
Professions, and law (262 pp. reading).
Opening prayer and meditation: St. Thomas Aquinas' Prayer Before Study
- Plato, Apology, trans. Thomas G. West, in Four Texts on Socrates, Ithica and London, Cornell University Press, 1984, pp.63-97.
- Kendall, Willmoore, “The people versus Socrates revisited” in Willmoore Kendall Contra Mundum; Ed. Nellie D. Kendall; 1971; reprinted Lanham, MD; University Press of America, 1994; pp. 149-167.
- Buchanan, Scott, The Doctrine of Signatures: A defense of theory in medicine, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1991. Buchanan argues that the liberal arts are embedded in medicine and the other great learned professions, even though we may have lost consciousness of this fact.
- Strauss, Leo, “On Natural Law,” published in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. David L. Sills, Crowell Collier and MacMillan, 1968, vol. 11, pp. 80-5, and republished in Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 137-146.