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• A Filosopher Reflects on Philing

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 429
  Owen Barfield was an inkling to whose daughter, Lucy, CS Lewis dedicated The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. He was a first class scholar in his own right who was comfortable with Latin, Greek, German, French, and who knows what other languages. I would love to read his book called History in English Words, ...
  1 week ago

• A Few Questions I’m Constantly Thinking About

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 429
  Some Christians are hesitant about going back to the classical authors and theorists for fear of becoming ancient pagans. I understand that hesitation, but have had to ask myself some tough questions. Especially this: Where do we get our education practices? Where is the bell in the Bible? Where the classroom? ...
  2 weeks ago

• Classical education as a confessional mandate?

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 525
  Tracing some of those helpful Luther quotes on vocations that some of you had given me, I came across this in the online Bente Triglotta translation of the Book of Concord . From the explanation of the Fourth Commandment in The Large Catechism : Let every one know, therefore, that it is his duty, on peril of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Grammar Lesson 2: The Parts of Speech: Noun Side (with a little historical introduction)

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 429
  What a funny term – parts of speech. Aren’t there other parts of speech besides the written words? Like gestures. Well, not strictly speaking. Speaking is, strictly speaking, using words. Do you know where the parts of speech come from? Trick question. The come from language. Do you know who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richard Weaver on Logic and Rhetoric, with a few applications to Debate

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 429
  I’ve been posting quite a bit on the necessity for formal grammar instruction lately, and I will continue to do so in the days to come, God willing. Grammar is a language study, one of the three liberal arts. The first. Then comes logic or dialectic. And then rhetoric. For Grammar I have urged people to read The ...
  3 weeks ago

• The benefits of a classical education

  
  And All These Things — Authority: 114
  Not too long ago, I was asked by someone what I thought the benefits of a classical education was, in comparison to a technical education. At first, I gave an answer that was very cheesy, and would make the person with whom I was discussing this matter feel good (it was so bad, I don’t even remember the answer… ...
  3 weeks ago

• Plutarch on Mark Antony

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 429
  …he left Italy and travelled into Greece, where he spent his time in military exercises and in the study of eloquence. He took most to what was called the Asiatic taste in speaking, which was then at its height, and was, in many ways, suitable to his ostentatious, vaunting temper, full of empty flourishes and ...
  4 weeks ago

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