Non declinavit ad dextram sive ad sinistram.
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Chris Ruckdeschel for a discussion on education, avoiding the pitfalls of the “Great Books,” and recovering the classical liberal arts. Bibliography Header Image: Francesco Pesellino, Seven Liberal Arts (c. 1450) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us …
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The Symbolism of the Loom and the Mast by Jeffrey Bond A PDF version of this essay is available here. Then, Glaucon, said I, when you meet encomiasts of Homer who tell us that this poet has been the educator of Hellas, and that for the conduct and refinement of human life he is worthy …
by Jeffrey Bond If we wish to investigate the heart of Thomas Hobbes’ political teaching in the Leviathan, there is no better place to look than Hobbes’ conception of war. After all, although Hobbes denies that there is any summum bonum, a greatest good toward which all our pursuits and actions are hierarchically ordered by …
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by Jeffrey Bond Today we present the third and final installment of an essay on John Locke’s doctrine of toleration. The first part can be found here, and the second here. An earlier version of this essay appeared in A Letter from the Romans, the Newsletter of the Roman Forum and the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute, February, …
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by Jeffrey Bond Today we present the second installment of an essay on John Locke’s doctrine of toleration. The first part can be found here. An earlier version of this essay appeared in A Letter from the Romans, the Newsletter of the Roman Forum and the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute, February, 1999, No. 4. PART II Having …
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by Jeffrey Bond Today we present the first installment of an essay on John Locke’s doctrine of toleration. Though we have already published an extended analysis of Locke’s famous Letter on Toleration, the topic merits further analysis, especially given the centrality of this doctrine to American politics today. This series will focus less on the particulars …
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by Jeffrey Bond Today we conclude our series on the different methods of teaching. Part I and Part II are available here. – The Editors Part III: The Problem of Seminar The open-ended nature of the seminar paradoxically requires that there be fairly strict guidelines for the teacher using the seminar mode; the teacher using this mode cannot simply rely upon …
by Jeffrey Bond Today we continue our series on the different methods of teaching. Part I of Jeffrey Bond’s essay was posted yesterday, and Part III will follow tomorrow. – The Editors PART II The Primary Mode: Tutorial From the foregoing we conclude that the tutorial represents a sort of mean. It is a mean between the …
by Jeffrey Bond The practice of teaching is without a doubt the guiding compass of human society. Nothing else so reliably and powerfully governs the trajectory of a community as the formation of its young people and the determination of their habits of thought. This is why Plato, in Book VIII of his Republic, identifies a failure to …
Outline Ethics Domestic Society The Village and the City Politics International Society Spiritual and Temporal Power Catholic Action Particular Historical and Contemporary Cases Art Speculative Philosophy Sacred Theology Introduction What is the Josias? The Editors Integralism in Three Sentences Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. 1. Ethics 1.1. The Final End The Good, the Highest Good, and the …