Tag Archives: Aristotle

Liberal education, Aristotle and Catharsis

Posted on January 28, 2012 by marklangley
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Liberal Education and the Slavery to Passion

Posted on January 23, 2012 by marklangley

  I had mentioned before that liberal education is an education that “frees” the student specifically from four types of slavery.  It might be worth mentioning that while liberal education is wonderfully useful in advancing the happiness of a human … Continue reading →

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The Oracle of Nature and of Truth

Posted on December 28, 2011 by marklangley

Now that John Henry Cardinal Newman is Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, I suppose everyone has to take him a little more seriously when he says things like the following: “Do not suppose, that in thus appealing to the ancients, … Continue reading →

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