The product of a genuine education is an ordinate soul. The ordinate soul is properly ordered to the hierarchy of being and value: it loves the lovable, desires the good, and admires the beautiful.
Order is produced in the soul through the inculcation of habits that bind our pleasures to that which is good and our pains to that which is bad.
A soul thus habituated is virtuous. (Mark Anderson, Pure)
Platonist?
ReplyDeleteyes, and one of the clearest critiques of modernity that I have ever read. Love this book.
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