"St Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it.11 Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.12 When the age for reflective thought comes, the pupil who has been thus trained in 'ordinate affections' or 'just sentiments' will easily find the first principles in Ethics; but to the corrupt man they will never be visible at all and he can make no progress in that science.13 Plato before him had said the same. The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likeable, disgusting and hateful."
CS Lewis The Abolition of Man
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Sort of afraid to write anything of substance about this topic for fear of the riff raff (spam) I'd get.
I will say that I was unfamiliar with all four of the s*x ed books Esolen mentioned and didnt bother looking them up.
Perhaps we need a code word :)
It wouldn't be so bad if people hadn't started using "gender" when they mean "sex," thus stripping the word of its most common usage, and its most "innocent" one.
I have a decent spam filter, so I'll "have none of your slum prudery here." Ah, how times have changed -- there used to be such a thing as "slum prudery." :) I wasted my memory space on memorizing the entire script of My Fair Lady when I was a kid, and quotes still come back to me.
Short and ... well, short this week. This was a hard one to write about.
I struggled through this one, but the post is up. I felt like I wanted to go in a million directions, plus it's hard to separate Method 7 from Method 8.
I came here from Mystie's blog. I know the discussion is over, but I thought I'd link my two cents in anyway.
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