Comments for Teachers as Witnesses at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 23 May 2013 06:45:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/teachers-as-witnesses.html#comment-3618 You may well enjoy George Steiner's book, Lessons of the Masters. Steiner would agree, as do I...most heartily. - Magister Christianus Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:06:06 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/teachers-as-witnesses.html#comment-3606 Perfect pairing w/ Fr. Schall's previous column. First the realm of philosophy, then academia, and hopefully further discussion of the witness of humane values (and virtue) in praxis - martyrology perhaps? One regrets that the article never quite arrives at its implied query - what form does the positive witness of the teacher take? The author goes to lengths to describe the "activism" of Rorty as a committed ideologue, but never describes him as living a life that would stand as a witness. - Adam Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:56:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/teachers-as-witnesses.html#comment-3605 Ok, I hate to introduce pedantics into this otherwise fine essay, but this is the second column in the last couple weeks in which "reticent" is used when "reluctant" is meant. Could we be just a trifle more careful to use the right word? God was. - Richard A Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/teachers-as-witnesses.html#comment-3604 Socrates seems to be in vogue this week, having been held up in the most recent previous column as a paragon of truth. I seem to recall that he repeatedly said he "knows nothing," and since he left so many questions in the air as to what the chief good in life is, his disciples were left to argue and determine this for themselves, often taking divergent paths. Augustine praised Plato as the greatest of philosophers. Aristotle said truth was greater than his teacher. So who do we listen to? Jesus - Joseph Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:20:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/teachers-as-witnesses.html#comment-3603 Great! When an orthodox mind harvests the worthwhile in the likes of Rorty. Part of the new evangelization Paul VI et aliis spoke about. One thing: Rorty's probably a bit too Socratic and postmodern to accept the label and notion of a "teacher." And St Augustine's own theories of education were a bit interioristic. To emerge from modernity's morass, the new evangelization needs ressourcement, which itself needs not only pagan ancients and Christian Fathers but also the scholastic doctors. - Panda Bear Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:07:30 +0100