The Tragedy of Democracy Without Authority: A Reflection on Maritain and Thucydides

By |2018-08-19T21:25:25-05:00April 11th, 2012|Categories: Classics, Democracy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Politics, Thucydides|Tags: , |

Scrupulous fear of the gods is the very thing which keeps the Roman Commonwealth together. To such an extraordinary height is this carried among them, both in private and public business, that nothing could exceed it. –Histories, Polybius Infirmity doth still neglect all office Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves When nature, [...]

Why Mortimer Adler Would Have Been the Best Academic Dean Ever

By |2023-06-28T22:07:01-05:00April 11th, 2012|Categories: Liberal Learning, Mortimer Adler, Robert M. Woods|

In the university where Adler would be Dean, all courses would at some point and in some way have the Socratic method as a dominant part of instruction. There would be no textbooks. There are little to no written exams, there are only verbal exams. Imagine every class, every day as an oral exam. The [...]

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