Education concerns the whole man; an educated man is a man with a point of view from which he takes in the whole world. Education concerns the whole man, the capax universi, capable of grasping the totality of existing things. In the previous installment on education (which can be read […]
The Prussians Are Coming
The previous two short articles were priming-the-pump, so to speak, to a fuller discussion about education. The onus of education should be shouldered by parents and the Church. This may be controversial by today’s gatekeepers and those of the secular laity who help maintain this gate, it is these people […]
John of Salisbury on the Liberal Arts
The Purpose of Education
Education is indicative of a fact tried and constantly tested by sundry of mankind’s experiences: that man is an imperfect and unfinished being. All philosophies, religions, sciences, and cultures testify to this. Man is something that has to be perfected and completed. The main goal of education is, therefore, to […]
The Horror of Modernity: Reform, Revolution, and the Ouroboric Nature of Progress (Part 2)
In the first part, we grounded reform in the Judeo-Christian conception of linear time that would climax in the Eschaton. History was a movement towards its fulfillment, its telos. The Reformation and the Age of Reason not only challenged institutional hierarchies but also flattened hierarchies of time and being resulting […]
The Logos and the Muse
The Horror of Modernity: Reform, Revolution, and the Ouroboric Nature of Progress (Part I)
Ideology: Modern Idolatry
Little children, keep yourselves from idols 1 John 5:21 There is a direct connection between ideas and conceptual idolatry. In order to be better aware of the dangers of ideology, one must understand this relationship. In an age when ideology has shaped the social construct and led to history’s worst […]