Where does history fit into the liberal learning? How can a historical sensibility be integrated into liberal education without relativizing and historicizing the truth claims made by other disciplines.  How do we prevent “Becoming” from overwhelming our access to “Being.” In this conversation with Prof. Dominic Aquila, we take up these questions and many more. (This discussion is preceded by Prof. Aquila’s thoughts on the place of liberal learning within the family.)

Links of Potential Interest:

Christopher Dawson, Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson

Christopher Dawson, The Crisis of Western Education

John Lukacs, Historical Consciousness

Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History

Christopher O. Blum, “The Historian and His Tools in the Workshop of Wisdom”

Rev. John Courtney Murray, “Is it Basket Weaving” from We hold these truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition

The Josias Podcast, Episode XXVI: Historicism