John Boyer joins Brian Kemple to discuss the decline of traditional liberal education and its impact on university curricula, emphasizing the superficial engagement with important questions in contemporary society, particularly through social media. In place of these superficial approaches, we ought to recover the Aristotelian understanding of causality, developing habits of real inquiry, and discovery of enduring truths.
00:00 – Preview: nothing interesting to say
01:29 – Discovering philosophical inquiry
11:45 – Knowledge of principles & education
15:05 – Good habits of thinking (NOT critical thinking)
27:38 – Aristotle’s theory of causality
41:35 – Community, causality, and education
48:10 – Principles of building intellectual habits
58:25 – Lessons from John Boyer
John Boyer is a Faculty Fellow of the Lyceum Institute. Learn more about his background here.
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