Over at Dissense.com, a site I plan on contributing to from time to time, Felix York says good riddance to Plato and other classic texts:
Modern academia exhibits a strange incongruity. The physics professor who assigns Aristotle to her students is a laughingstock, but the metaphysics professor who assigns Aristotle [...]
Cross posted from the Castoff Review.
Speaking of “great books” and education, see this selection from an interview with Charles Taylor, philosopher:
At the time of Max Weber – maybe we nostalgically magnify that – and even slightly later, you found that philosophy students in Germany, were given an incredibly broad course in Greek philosophy and the [...]
Cross posted from the Castoff Review.
There is a small and mostly unnoticed renaissance of sorts occurring in this country, arising out of a renewed interest in the study of fundamental ideas and the serious books which explicate them. Check out this WSJ article by Emily Esfahani-Smith describing students from 12 to 17 who willingly [...]