The Great Conversation: Government By Gabriel Blanchard It began to be said several years ago that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” were becoming a more appealing […]
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The Great Conversation: Relation By Gabriel Blanchard This concept has risen steadily in the Great Conversation, from a lesser footnote to a chief aspect of both physics and
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The Great Conversation: Authority—Part VI By Gabriel Blanchard We have discussed autonomy and the authority spheres of the temple, the forum, and the academy; one more remains. This
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The Great Conversation: Authortity—Part V By Gabriel Blanchard The authority of the scholar contains certain ironies that may not show at a glance … This post is Part
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The Great Conversation: Authority—Part IV By Gabriel Blanchard Having discussed power in the spheres of religion and the individual conscience, we now come to the public sphere of
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The Great Conversation:Authority—Part III By Gabriel Blanchard “We hold these truths to be self-evident”; but are they? Go here for Part I (religion), or here for Part II
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The Great Conversation:Authority—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard The idea of religious authority swiftly brings us to what some people regard practically as its opposite, the question of autonomy
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The Great Conversation:Authority—Part I By Gabriel Blanchard The question of authority impinges on practically every other field of inquiry that exists or can exist. Though curiously omitted from
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Trivialities and Quadrivialities Is the Medieval-Classical Model of Education Truly Still Relevant? By Gabriel Blanchard The classical renewal movement has long argued that the skills of the Trivium
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The Great Conversation:Technology—Part II By Gabriel Blanchard What does technology, especially with its peculiar relationship to information, bode for our future? Go here for Part I. The lens
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