Why, Through Application of Its Educational Principles, the New World Order Can Never Generate Higher Education

• Main Author: Peter A. Redpath
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Étienne Gilson Society 2020-12-01
• Series: Studia Gilsoniana
• Subjects: adler; aristotle; betterment; capacity; education; educator; good; happiness; harmonize; human nature; ignorance; justice; knowledge; liberal arts; organizational whole; perfection; potentiality; power; prudence; soul; teaching
• Online Access: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-fbdf59b1-0d77-4dec-b0dc-9ce1272621a8?q=bwmeta1.element.cejsh-71f2742e-4b64-4a85-b7ed-e4287df10faa;8&qt=CHILDREN-STATELESS

This article defends the teaching of Mortimer J. Adler that human education must aim at the betterment of human beings by forming good habits in us; and that, if intellectual and moral virtues, or good habits, are the same for all human beings because our natural capacities are the same and tend naturally to the same developments, then what logically follows is that the intellectual and moral virtues, or good habits, as the ends of education, are the absolute and universal principles on which education should always and everywhere be founded. This being the case, it concludes that, because of its essential foundation in the essentially flawed Enlightenment understanding of human nature, the New World Order can never be a cause of higher education, can, at best, cause a caricature of it.