"Some things are good in and of themselves, not merely because they please our peculiar taste or passing fancy."
The above quote is from an article by author, John C. Wright entitled, "The Judgment of Paris". Read the entire article for an insightful explanation of reasons to read the "Great Books".
At the end of the above-mentioned article is a link to an interview with the author of the article,John C. Wright in Sci-Fi Weekly. In this interview, John C. Wright discusses his conversion at the age of 42 from committed atheism to Christianity. The interviewer asks:
At some point after your first three epics were completed, you converted to Christianity, having been a resolute humanist before. How did this come about?
Wright: Now, this is a difficult question to answer, because to talk of these deep matters automatically provokes half the audience, and bores the other half. I will try to be as brief and delicate as I can.
Humanist is too weak a word. I was an atheist, zealous and absolute, one who held that the nonexistence of God was a fact as easily proved as the inequality of five and twice two.
Read the interview, John C. Wright continues the adventures of A.E. van Vogt and turns Roger Zelazny's Amber saga inside out.
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