Why Plato Wrote
Why Plato Wrote. Danielle S. Allen. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. As part of the Blackwell Bristol Lectures Series on Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, Danielle S. Allen has…
Raymond Barfield’s The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry
The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Raymond Barfield. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011. From its beginnings, philosophy’s language, concepts, and imaginative growth have been heavily…
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues. J.B. Kennedy. Acumen Press, 2011. J.B. Kennedy’s The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues seeks to establish that Plato divided some, if…
R. E. Allen’s Republic
Plato: The Republic. Translated by R.E. Allen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. As with his other works on Plato’s dialogues, R. E. Allen’s translation of…
Andrea Tschemplik’s Republic
The Republic. The Comprehensive Student Edition. Andrea Tschemplik. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Tschempilk's The Republic is an excellent textbook for undergraduate students. It is based on the…
Plato’s Meno
Plato’s Meno. Dominic Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. As part of the Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato, Scott’s Plato’s Meno is an excellent…
Docilitas. On Teaching and Being Taught
Docilitas. On Teaching and Being Taught. James V. Schall. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press. Docilitas. On Teaching and Being Taught is a companion work to…
Another Sort of Learning
Another Sort of Learning: Selected Contrary Essays on How Finally to Acquire an Education While Still in College or Anywhere Else: Containing Some Belated Advice about How…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Concluding Thoughts
In the past several essays, I have reviewed some of the twentieth and twentieth-first century great thinkers as teachers: Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, Gerhart Niemeyer, John H…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Stanley Rosen
In the past couple of essays, I have looked at Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield as teachers in a climate of positivism, relativism, and academic mediocrity. In…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Harvey Mansfield
In my last essay, I wrote about Leo Strauss’ defense of liberal education as a possible antidote to the narrowness of specialization of knowledge and the moral…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Leo Strauss
So far I have examined a set of thinkers that could be classified in the same school of thought as “Voegelinian”: Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, Gerhart Niemeyer,…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: John H. Hallowell
In my last essay I wrote about Gerhart Niemeyer who sought to avoid indoctrinating his students in order for them to pursue the true, the beautiful, and…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Gerhart Niemeyer
In my previous essays about teaching in an age of ideology, I had looked at two teachers – Eric Voegelin and Ellis Sandoz – who sought to…
Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Ellis Sandoz
In my previous essay about Eric Voegelin, I wrote how Voegelin became a model of thinking devoid of ideological rant in the student’s quest for the true,…