Tag: The Way of the Will
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The Soul of Education, Part 11: Charlotte Mason and the Sacredness of Personality
In our series on “The Soul of Education,” we have been systematically exploring historical views of the soul, uncovering their impact on educational philosophy. Our modus operandi relies on an awareness of the fact that anthropology inevitably affects pedagogy: our view of what a human being is trickles down into how we propose to educate…
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The Soul of Education, Part 5: The Stoic Will and the Rational Imperative
In this series, we have been working like the Stoic Athenodorus, following the ghost of our philosophical assumptions about the soul out into the courtyard of ideas to discover what must be retained and what must be reburied. We have engaged with Plato’s immortal and tripartite soul, and explored Aristotle’s integrated hylomorphism, where the soul…