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The Virtues of Reading

How Great Books Cultivate and Promote the Good Life

 |  Karen Swallow Prior
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Reading great books can cultivate virtue in two ways: by modeling virtue, and by offering readers a way to practice virtues imaginatively through the act of reading. This talk will highlight some of the virtues embodied in classical literary works and demonstrate reading skills that cultivate both virtue and also delight in the reader.

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Karen Swallow Prior is the author of The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis and a columnist at Religion News Service. She writes regularly on Substack at The Priory.