[CHARLITE]

This is a wonderful article, in my opinion.

[Borges]

Terry Eagleton surmised that the decline of the Classics in English speaking countries started with the advent of WW1. Philology was largely associated with Germany so the patriotically inclined English took the focus off of them in favor of their own literature.

[2banana]

"Such was the understanding of the ancient Greeks and of the Renaissance humanists," he continues, "but not, I fear of many teachers of the humanities today, who deny the possibility of knowing anything with confidence, of the reality of such concepts as truth and virtue, who seek only gain and pleasure in the modern guise of political power and self-gratification as the ends of education."

Very, very TRUE!

[Little Pig]

This is why I will be buying the complete Great Books of the Western World.

[Jaysun]

Wonderful article and wonderful lecture by Mr. Kagan.

http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/kagan/lecture.html

[kalee]

Dead white male bump

[Conservatrix]

Philosopher's Song (Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl)

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the turning of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, with half a pint of shandy was
particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.

[Conservatrix]

The reason why the dregs of society are being lauded today for such achievements as crucixes in urine, jungle-beat incantations about raping women and killing police officers, unryhmed, nonsensical poetry, and idiotic movies full of sex is precisely because THE GREAT WHITE MALE is now evil. What else have you got? The not great white or non-white anything else.

But give me Bach, Tennyson, Vivaldi, Milton, Caravaggio, Beethoven, Donne, Rembrandt, Herbert, Josquin, DaVinci, Dickens, and the rest of the noble host of the great white men of Western Civilization anyday over the scum we call achievement today.
PLEASE!!!!!

[TruthConquers]

I am aiming to do my part by attempting to homeschool my daughter in the classical model of the trivium. There is a network of private schools doing this as well. My best introduction to this educational viewpoint was "The Well Trained Mind" by Jesse Wise.

There has been a growing trend towards the classics in education outside the public schools.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[SunkenCiv]

an old-style FR topic:

White Male Inventions
Source: Newsmax
Published: 12/15/99 Author: Michael Savage
Posted on 12/15/1999 13:54:32 PST by technochick99
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38580e182bb4.htm