Psychology, personalities, and virtue

Growth vs fixed mindset

19th century attempts at godless materialism across various fields

Using personality to excuse character flaws

Virtue - Habits toward the good; habits toward the Ideal

Habits are inclinations, biases, and tendencies that are hard to acquire and hard to lose

The Ideal man (the virtuous man or "manly" man) seems to do good and right things by second nature

Virtue is the mean between two vices

Vices of excess and lack

Courage is a virtue; cowardice is to lack virtue; rashness is to have courage in excess

Virtue and virtuous action and context

Virtue Ethics - defining goodness by the ideal

Christ as the Ideal

The use of the Law as a tutor

Virtues are characteristics of the Ideal Man, or "manliness"

Education is the Cultivation of the Right Kind of Person

Defining the Right Kind of Person

Ethics: Goodness defined by laws (deontology), results (consequentialism), and the Ideal (virtue ethics)

In this episode, I introduce the nature and purpose of this podcast.

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EDUCATION is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nourishing the soul on truth, goodness, and beauty. It should be distinguished from training (for a career), which is of eternal value but is not the same thing as education.

CLASSICAL EDUCATION is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nourishing the soul on truth, goodness, and beauty by means of the seven liberal arts and the four sciences. Historically, classical education has followed two streams that frequently flow together:

These two emphases, which have often been in conflict historically but are not mutually exclusive, gave rise to two modes of instruction: the Mimetic and the Socratic.

https://www.circeinstitute.org/resources-what-classical-education/definitions-terms