Moral Conduct and Citizenship
Analysis of Book One Scene: 1990s American college core curriculum class in philosophy. Players: Professor and students Professor: Today I would like us to analyze the first…
The Philosopher as Citizen
The Usefulness of Plato’s Republic to the Philosopher The topic of this essay is the practical application of reading Plato's Republic in the life and work of…
Writing Exercises and the Republic
Another way to teach students to think critically is to have them do a lot of writing. Three professors from BYU, who have team-taught a writing and…
Learning Goals and Teaching Methods for Exploring the Republic
The obligation to teach students how to think effectively has been an important educational objective for several decades. "One of the teacher's greatest responsibilities is to cultivate…
Plato’s Republic in the Core Curriculum: Multiculturalism and the Canon Debate
The Issue of Multiculturalism Plato's Republic is under fire right now. Stanford University's core curriculum students are no longer required to read Plato's Republic because it represents…
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…
Ellis Sandoz as Master Teacher
Professor Ellis Sandoz, the Hermann Moyse, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies,…
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,…