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This talk answers the following questions, received from a contact.
1) When you refer to "classical education" what exactly is it that you mean? What is the exact curriculum that you are trying to recreate? Where/when in history is this curriculum?
2) If "classical" refers to Ancient Greece and Rome, would it be more accurate to say you provide a "Scholastic" curriculum? I ask because I noticed about a third of your courses in the Bachelor's program are more recent than the classical period.
3) Are there any more recent books that you have thought are capable of supplanting a text from the ancient times? For example, a book on ethics that incorporates Aristotle's thought but also divine revelation. I have heard that in the late 19th/early 20th century (in the wake of Pastor aeternus) many Thomistic "manuals" were written that attempted something like this.
Mr. William C. Michael, O.P.
By William C. MichaelThis talk answers the following questions, received from a contact.
1) When you refer to "classical education" what exactly is it that you mean? What is the exact curriculum that you are trying to recreate? Where/when in history is this curriculum?
2) If "classical" refers to Ancient Greece and Rome, would it be more accurate to say you provide a "Scholastic" curriculum? I ask because I noticed about a third of your courses in the Bachelor's program are more recent than the classical period.
3) Are there any more recent books that you have thought are capable of supplanting a text from the ancient times? For example, a book on ethics that incorporates Aristotle's thought but also divine revelation. I have heard that in the late 19th/early 20th century (in the wake of Pastor aeternus) many Thomistic "manuals" were written that attempted something like this.
Mr. William C. Michael, O.P.