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graydon ([personal profile] graydon) wrote in [personal profile] jsburbidge 2018-05-10 01:03 am (UTC)

It pretty much was wickedness. There were a number of much more egalitarian traditions -- whether we want to talk about insular monastics or village structures or the Scottish Enlightenment or even the pre-Great Harry function of the church -- the drive for supremacy in war doesn't explain all the choices the neo-classicism of the Enlightenment made.

I am quite all right with people studying classics in university, all the same; James was talking about a middle school curriculum. I'd want to leave classics entirely out of that.

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