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Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Disappointment of the Human Heart

We've moved to a different view of man. As an evolutionary based society on the large part, we see man is not needing improvement. And so why would you ever despair of being the thing that you are? You don't need to change. I just came across this article from David Hicks who we talked about before about norms and ability. This very influential book on classical Christian education. So in 2016, he wrote this article about whether classical Christian education is possible in the modern age. He said no. That's one of them. One of them is the loss of an idea of a telos,. The idea of there being an end or a purpose of a person.

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