Classic Learning in Black History: Part I
Dr. Anika Prather of Howard University gives us a three-part series explaining how she went from being suspicious of the Classics to being truly captivated.
Dr. Anika Prather of Howard University gives us a three-part series explaining how she went from being suspicious of the Classics to being truly captivated.
The study of music is not merely a pleasant pastime; it merits its status as one of the seven liberal arts, and belongs in all students’ education.
The techniques of persuasion have been so habitually separated from logic and wisdom, it’s assumed that rhetoric is persuasion through bad reasons for bad purposes. But in truth, the art of persuasion is as necessary for good arguments as it is for bad ones.
The paradoxes in how gravity, light, and atomic nuclear forces operate have prompted subtle theories about not only nature, but reality as such—bending science back towards its parent discipline of philosophy.
God himself is regularly described and depicted in art as the supreme geometer, creating all things in number, weight, and measure.
From Socrates to Descartes, dialectic was principally a technique of the mind to discover truth: Hegel suggested that the world itself is a kind of mind.
Avicenna laid the groundwork for the philosophy of the Scholastics, particularly developing the logic of Aristotle.
Wonder glimpses an elusive knowledge worth pursuing, and this desire permeated St. Thomas’ mind and heart.
“Is not the great defect of our education today that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils ‘subjects,’ we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think?”
“I enter into the courts of ancient men and am welcomed by them kindly, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born.”