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Is the Good Man the Good Citizen?: An Essay on |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / T.S. ELIOT ON THE AIMS OF EDUCATION |
| Author: Robert D. Hickson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 4,818 Words, 29,261 Characters |
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What T.S. Eliot gradually comes to say in his second lecture, building upon the first, he further clarifies two years later in his introduction to Josef Pieper's profound book. Leisure: The Basis of Culture. In his Chicago lectures, his key premises are largely implicit. His assumptions may be not yet fully conscious, even to himself. Later comes clarity.
Near the end of his first lecture on education, Eliot says: "I do not suggest that we should abandon the attempt to define the purpose of education (and the definition of the purpose in an inevitable step from the definition of the word itself). "But, he adds, if we define education, we are led to ask, "What is Man?" and if we define the purpose of education we must likewise respond to the question "What is man for?" Thus, when we co...
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...It is the secret of life."
To what extent will we in our moral anarchy accept Eliot's sustained Christian vision of virtue and education, his perception of reality and the realization of the good? Will we take it as "the signal for waking up" and do then the right thing for the right reason, unto selfless love? We remain free to accept the sacrifice: A voluntary offering freely given.
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