“The mind can know nothing except what it can express in the form of an answer to a question put by the mind to itself.”
— Charlotte Mason
“The mind can know nothing except what it can express in the form of an answer to a question put by the mind to itself.”
— Charlotte Mason
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.
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.
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.
Larissa Bianco interviews Dr. Valenzuela who will be leading an AMI webinar on Chaucer’s beloved tale: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale of Chanticleer and the Fox.
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If it is true that nature indeed acts for an end, then man by nature must have a purpose.
What lies at the heart of this mirthful comedy: the possibility of joy in a world where people are open to the goodness in each other, despite whatever reasons they may have not to be.
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.
Pilgrims to Rome on their tours of the great papal basilicas invariably find their way to Santa Maria Maggiore, which in the Borghese chapel houses
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Newman’s Idea of a University stands as one of the greatest works on the nature of education. It arose from his efforts to found a Catholic
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
How does man know? What are the roles of signs and meaning in knowing? What does “meaning” mean? What does man want to know? What are the objects to
“We can’t teach the humanities unless the students have been humanized.” In this episode, Dr. Jared Staudt discusses the text, Newman’s Idea of A University,
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