I’m in the process of launching a literary movement that we’ll awkwardly call the “Pre-Sidneyans” or something as ironically self-defeating as that. Only it won’t be post-modern, apart from coming after the modern. And it won’t be post-human, apart from coming after the destruction of humanity. It’s fundamental idea is that art should imitate, not […]
A friend who is teaching up-and-coming teachers about the liberal arts forwarded this question to me from one of his students: I’ve also been contemplating throughout class so far how to prepare younger students for logic, as it is likely I will find myself teaching the younger grades next year. It seems to me that
It isn’t a substance; that’s an idea embodied. It isn’t a sentence; that’s an idea verbalized. It isn’t knowable, but it’s already known. Without it, every attempt to know anything ends in frustration and even despair, if the learner tries long enough to know without it. If you think you know it, then you don’t
