Owen Anderson Archives - Institute for Classical Education

July 30, 2020

The following entry is from Dr. Owen Anderson (Arizona State University), a Fellow of the Institute for Classical Education. I am starting a series on the Academy. We need to assess the state of the Academy and the challenges it faces. This includes questions about its purpose and how it achieves that purpose. It can be...

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How philosophy affects history

by Rob Jackson

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June 9, 2020

Today’s video-lecture is from this year’s National Classical Education Symposium. Our conference theme, “The Historian’s Craft,” provided ample room for both historians and other subject matter experts, who could speak to the ways in which history pertains to other disciplines. From Dr. Owen Anderson’s lecture, we learn that another discipline, philosophy, affects the ways in which we...

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Thinking carefully about the Academy

How philosophy affects history