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The Soul of Education, Part 10: Freud and the Disintegration of the Soul
In our series on “The Soul of Education,” we have adopted the philosophical procedure of the Stoic Athenodorus: when presented with a ghost in a haunted house, he…
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The Soul of Education, Part 9: John Amos Comenius and the Soul as a Boundless Abyss
This series on historical views of the soul has demonstrated that every educational philosophy necessarily relies on a pre-existing view of the human person. Anthropology will inevitably inform…
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The Soul of Education, Part 8: Descartes and the Ghost in the Machine
In our ongoing series, we have been working like the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, following the ghost of our philosophical assumptions about the soul out into the courtyard of…
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The Soul of Education, Part 7: The Thomistic Synthesis-Soul as Form and Spirit
The Great Conversation regarding the nature of the human person finds a singular climax in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). Known as the Doctor Angelicus, Aquinas…
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The Soul of Education, Part 6: St. Augustine and the Incorporeal Ascent
In this series, we have been analyzing the views of the soul in the great thinkers and philosophies of the western tradition. Our working thesis is that our…
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Cultivating Character: A Biblical-Aristotelian Approach
It is difficult to imagine a more pressing need in education today than to ensure that we are cultivating students with character: students who are honest, respectful, diligent,…
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