GREAT
BOOKS PROGRAM FACULTY
The authors of
the Great Books constitute the permanent faculty of the Program - through
their writings they are our primary teachers. Our moderators (following,
below) guide students to and through them, the geniuses of Western civilization.
The
Authors of the Great Books
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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Dr.
Mortimer J. Adler
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It would be ungracious of us to begin our faculty list with anyone
other than the late Mortimer J. Adler, who certainly deserves the
credit for being the exemplar for our faculty members and moderators,
though he did not moderate in it before his death in 2001. His life-long
pursuit and promotion of academic excellence and educational reform
- known as the Great Books Movement - is the immediate intellectual
precursor of this program. It was his insight into how to restore
American education at the secondary and college levels that inspired
and directed the formulation and design of this program in 2000, as
well as his personal encouragement of the idea of this program. We
consider the recent American Council on Education's recommendations
for college credit for this program to be another recognition of Dr.
Adler's educational perspicacity. |
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Max Weismann, Our Chairman |
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Professor Max Weismann is President, Director and Co-Founder (with Mortimer Adler) of the Center for Study of the Great Ideas. Professor Weismann is the author of a popular book entitled How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization. In addition, he publishes and edits the journals Philosophy Is Everybody's Business and The Great Ideas Online. Professor Weismann has been a moderator of international Great Books seminars and a lifelong member of the Great Books Foundation. He has been teaching and promoting adult liberal education through the reading and discussion of the Great Books of Western Civilization for more than 40 years. |
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Patrick
S. J. Carmack - President |

Patrick S.J.
Carmack, B.B.A., J.D.
President
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After
earning his Juris Doctorate, Pat completed numerous additional courses
in psychology and philosophy. A former Administrative Law Judge at
the Oklahoma State Corporation Commission, member of the U.S. Supreme
Court Bar, former CEO of an independent petroleum exploration and
production company, founder and former Chairman of the International
Caspian Horse Society, and President of a non-profit educational foundation,
Pat lives with his wife Elisabeth and their five homeschooled children
on Eagle Mountain overlooking Colorado Springs. Pat participated in
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler's last several Socratic discussion groups in
Maryland and California in 1999 and 2000, respectively and moderated
the first live-audio Socratic groups online (2000 AD) and numerous
online groups since, as well as at Great Books evening programs in
Seattle. He has been a speaker on educational topics at various conferences
in the US and Europe. |
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Curtis Hancock, Ph.D. Philosophy |
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Curtis Hancock, Ph.D. Philosophy, holds the Joseph M. Freeman Chair
of Philosophy at Rockhurst College; is Coordinator of and lecturer
in the Great Books Program, "Return to the Classics"; Chair
of the Department of Philosophy (1991-94); has served as President
of both the American Maritain Association and The Gilson Society for
the Advancement of Christian Philosophy; has authored four books of
philosophy; twenty-two published philosophical articles and co-authored
two books. Dr. Hancock is a Director of The Great Books Academy.
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James Taylor, Ph.D. Philosophy of Education, Kansas
University |
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Jim
is currently Assistant Professor of Education, University of Tulsa.
He previously served as Chairman of the Teacher Education Program
at Hillsdale College, Michigan. He has taught at several private
schools on both the secondary (high school) and college levels.
He is a student of the renowned Integrated Humanities Program (in
the liberal arts) at Kansas University and is the author of the
wonderful book Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education. Jim
also works with our high school great books students. |
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Robert Alexander, Ph.D. |
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Literature and Politics, University of Dallas. Bob's doctorate is
in literature and politics. He has taught at John Cabot University
in Rome, Italy; the University of San Francisco, California; College
of Notre Dame, California; Magdalen College, New Hampshire, where
he often moderated Great Books discussion groups. He currently teaches
at the University of Dallas and also works with our high school great
books students. Though Bob no longer does online classes he and his
lovely wife, Suzanne, wrote the majority of our Great Books Study
Guides. |
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Steve Bertucci, Director |
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Steve Bertucci is a Director of the Great Books Program and has probably
moderated more Great Books discussion groups (literally thousands
now) than any living human! He speaks at educational conferences throughout
the country and in Europe and serves on the boards of nonprofit educational
and arts organizations. Steve was one of the pioneers of live-audio
online Socratic discussion groups. He lives with his family in the
foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. He works with
our students in 3rd grade through high school, and with our adult
groups, as well. |
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Elisabeth Carmack - Registrar |
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Elisabeth was homeschooled through high school; is a Board Certified
Naturopathic Doctor and earned a Ph.D. in Nutritional Science. In
June, 2002 she was awarded the Diploma (D.I. Hom.) of the British
Institute of Homeopathy , and is a Fellow of the British Institute
of Homeopathy. She lives with her husband and five homeschooled children
on Eagle Mountain overlooking Colorado Springs, Washington and supervises
our written grading, transcript and enrollment services.
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