Tag: rationalism
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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 historical ideas to discover what must be retained and what must be reburied. So far in our chronological survey we have engaged with the tripartite harmony of…
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Why Study Western Civilization?
The classical Christian movement has at its core a commitment to teaching Western civilization. Even though we teach Western civ, its distinctive qualities are not always clear. As a result, many educators (even within the classical movement) question why we would teach Western civilization. Here I will lay out what I think are the three…