{"id":5621,"date":"2025-01-21T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T09:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckbooks.org\/wordpress\/product\/short-excerpts-in-great-literature-level-twelve\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:09:04","slug":"short-excerpts-in-great-literature-level-twelve","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ckbooks.org\/wordpress\/product\/short-excerpts-in-great-literature-level-twelve\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Excerpts in Great Literature \u2013 LEVEL TWELVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please view \/ download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ckbooks.org\/BOOK_COVERS_AND_SAMPLES\/pdf_samples\/9781637941850_sample.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a PDF sample of this book<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"pt-Normal-000009\"><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000004\">Intended for high school seniors (but could also be read by juniors), this book contains very important excerpts from great masters such as Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas, and Shakespeare.   If the very names Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and St. Thomas make you concerned, \u201cOh no, my student could <\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000019\">never <\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000004\">understand that!\u201d,  then we assure you that with the great number of annotations, explanations, and vocabulary entries that we have added, the average student should do just fine understanding what is being taught by these masters of wisdom.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"pt-Normal-000009\"><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000004\">Plato (by giving us the thought of his teacher, Socrates) teaches us in the <\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000019\">Meno<\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000004\"> and <\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000019\">Apology<\/span><span class=\"pt-DefaultParagraphFont-000004\"> the importance of the intellectual life and that one must pursue it to the best of one\u2019s abilities, even to the point of dying for the truth.  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