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Mark the Music

It is because of music’s close imitation of virtue or vice that music is so crucial for one’s moral formation. And this is why Socrates banishes music from his Republic; he finds music too powerful when manipulating the passions and forming the virtues of his citizens.

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Against Method

What pertains to the uses of intellect divides into the particular and the human.  Human uses go to the intellectual act proper to human beings, such that any creature undertaking that act would, eo ipso, count for us as human, namely: to ask a genuine question; to formulate in language the unqualified desire to know; to respond to wonder through inquiry.

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Brontë’s Vision of Romantic Love

In a strict, Calvinist boarding school in the cold and wet environs of Northwestern England, amid “clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating,” Charlotte Brontë’s fictional orphan, Jane, begins to undergo a series of hardships that form in her a strong moral compass and an equally strong desire for a love she has never had.

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Virtue and the Good Life

Most people for most of history understood that the purpose of educating a child was to produce a wise and virtuous adult. And just as an acorn is made to become an oak tree, so a child is made to become an adult, designed for family and friendship and community and hard work and, ultimately, heaven.

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Plato's Republic

PLATO’S REPUBLIC

The Republic is the most complete attempt by Plato to articulate and answer the question, “What is the best way of life for a human being?” It is

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