Growing Admiration for Locke
May 27, 2021
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OK, I’m going to admit I’ve been pretty impressed with John Locke so far in his treatise On Education. Most philosophers I’ve read take a
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Interaction with Kids
May 26, 2021
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John Locke, in his essay On Education, talks about the English custom (at around 1700) of doting on children when young, and then becoming progressively
Education and TV
May 25, 2021
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The Desire to Learn I was thinking the other day about all the reading I’m doing. The Harvard Classics series includes a lot more philosophical,
John Lock on Education
May 24, 2021
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Reading John Locke’s Some Thoughts on Education. “Some thoughts” goes for nearly 200 pages, with 216 sections, so apparently… don’t get this guy started, amirite?
Martin Luther
May 22, 2021
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I had read about Martin Luther, primarily in Will Durant’s Story of Civilization, Part 6- The Reformation. But I had never actually read any of
Satire and Utopia
May 17, 2021
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I just finished reading Thomas More’s 1516 book- Utopia. The book describes an interaction between More and some others in Antwerp, Belgium, where he meets
Sir Thomas More
May 11, 2021
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Been reading through a brief biography of Sir Thomas More, famous for his book Utopia. He lived from 1478 to 1535 and served under Henry
Archaic English in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
May 6, 2021
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I had mentioned in an Instagram post that I had just finished one of the Harvard classic volumes containing a section of Thomas Malory’s Le
W.E. Channing and the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
January 16, 2021
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William Ellery Channing, in his 1840 lecture on the Elevation of the Laboring Classes, discusses the objections of the day to his program to elevate
Age and Wisdom applied to Generations
December 30, 2020
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I was reading Sydney Smith’s essay: Fallacies of Anti-Reformers. He names “Our Wise Ancestors” as a “mischievous and absurd fallacy springing from the grossest perversion