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Its honestly insane how back we are

I hate kindles so much

Hasan offers advice to Ukraine on what to do about Russia "Give peace a try..there is no harm in this, all wars end with treaties..do it now when u have more leverage" "Give peace a try -> capitulate to Russian imperialism" - chatter "Omg I'm gonna d*e..it's happening again..u think the situation right now is worse for Russia than it is for Ukraine?” “Dog there's no world where 18% of Ukrainian territory has been taken over and de facto annexed by Russia that is a better position for Ukraine as opposed to Russia..now the majority of Ukrainians are in favor of ceding territory in exchange for a permanent cessation of hostilities"

The Great Books are often presented as the cure for our educational crisis. But many of the ideas that fuel today's relativism came from the Great Books. Many of these books became "great" by rebelling against Western tradition. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau all present conflicting anthropological myths. Machiavelli rebels against Western ethics, and Marx rewrites the totality of how history should be considered. This is where it helps to remember that many of the "great books" (e.g., lists proposed by Adler and Hutchins) and were chosen for their impact, and not principally for their truth. Forget this, and you can easily become a well-read relativist: you study the greatest minds of the West, discover these minds disagree, and then walk away believing there's no reasonable expectation of truth. But the goal of education is not to become a more sophisticated relativist. It was not relativistic dialogue that led Alcuin of York and Emperor Charlemagne to rebuild the West. Nor was it relativism that nurtured St. Thomas Aquinas or Dante. Remember, you are an inheritor of a robust pursuit of truth. Aquinas taught that "truth is the conformity of the mind to reality." This is the purpose of the liberal arts, of the great books, and of all study: the understanding of what is true. So, how are we to turn to the great books to teach us truth, yet also judge them by whether or not what they teach is true? By what standard do we judge them? Our goal is to become students of the Logos. The Logos, the ordering principle of all reality, is at the heart of the liberal arts tradition: a disciplined order of knowledge that moves the intellect into conformity with reality. Whether it is the logos of rhetoric or the logos of music, all logos is an aspect of the Logos — the order of all reality. If there is a divine ordering principle of creation, and every created thing has its own logos, this means that reality has a discoverable, rational order. This is the great inheritance of the West: the belief that reality is ordered and truth is attainable. The medievals understood this well, as the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric), the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), and even the higher sciences of medicine and law were subservient to and perfected by the queen of the sciences, theology. The liberal arts, with its formation of the whole person, was both rooted in and oriented toward God. We live in the age of the anti-Logos. If the ancients built up a great study of reality, then the moderns tore it down. Each man becomes his own god, his own "Logos," who believes reality should conform to the "truth" of his own imagination. But the goal is not to become a well-read relativist. The goal is to conform your mind to reality. Remember that the Great Books, rooted in the Logos, are tools. They are to be read as signposts along the journey of the mind toward truth.

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