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 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 […]
While there are many sorts of arts, the first to proffer their services to the natural abilities of those who philosophize are the liberal arts. All of the latter are included in the courses of the Trivium and Quadrivium. The liberal arts are said to have become so efficacious among […]
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 […]
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 […]
I apologize for the lack of posts. I have been preoccupied with a series of lectures and class discussions about mythic history. If you are interested in some of the ideas that I’ve written about here, then please check out the media section in the menu. The full title of […]
The myth of modernity coheres the seemingly disparate threads of reality into some semblance of a systematic whole. It propels the modern imaginary into the unknown, to boldly go where no man has gone before. The desire to solve the unifying theory of the universe, or to reach back in […]
Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men inwhom there is no salvation.When his breath departs he returns to his earth; onthat very day his plans perish.The Lord will reign forever; Your God, O Zion, toall generations. Second Antiphon from the Divine liturgy (Ps. 146) Closing out my […]
I encourage you to read the first part in this series. If that is too much like reading an introduction or preface to the main body of a book, then a summary is in order. Previously, we discussed briefly how the Black Death, Copernican Revolution, and nominalism contributed to the […]
In order to understand how we got to this point in the history of ideas, one must first discard the notion that humankind has always thought the same. Yes, instinctually–one can say man’s fallen nature is synonymous with what is often called “instinct,” namely the base, animal nature of man–human […]
