Father Barron and Philosophy

Brandon Vogt brings us Father Barron's philosophy reading recommendations.
Excerpts:

Here are his recommended titles:

• The God of Faith and Reason by Robert Sokolowski
• Faith, Hope, Love by Josef Pieper
• The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper
• The Silence of St. Thomas by Josef Pieper
• Aquinas by Fr. Frederick Copleston, SJ
• The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• The Dialogues of Plato by Plato
• On Being and Essence by St. Thomas Aquinas

In another conversation, Fr. Barron also praised Fr. Copleston's nine-volume History of Philosophy series:

• Volume 1 - Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
• Volume 2 - Medieval Philosophy
• Volume 3 - Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
• Volume 4 - Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Leibnitz
• Volume 5 - Modern British Philosophy from Hobbes to Hume
• Volume 6 - Modern Philosophy from the French Enlightenment to Kant
• Volume 7 - Modern Philosophy from the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche
• Volume 8 - Modern Philosophy - Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America
• Volume 9 - Modern Philosophy from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss