Tag: conscience
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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 calmly followed it out into the courtyard and later dug up and reburied the remains of a hidden and unresolved murder. By an analogy, we too are…
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The Counsels of the Wise, Part 1: Foundations of Christian Prudence
We began this series with a proposal to replace Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives with Aristotle’s five intellectual virtues. While Bloom and his fellow university examiners aimed to create clarity in teaching goals through a common language, their taxonomy of cognitive domain objectives may have done more harm than good. In rejecting the traditional paradigm…