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Reason, will, appetite, and the end of education: Considering the role of evolutionary theory in modern teaching methods

By Alliance Alert

Andrew Kern writing at The Circe Institute: "My conviction is this: when you apply naturalistic evolutionary teaching to education, you undercut education itself. ... When Darwin was believed to have demonstrated that humanity descended through an evolutionary process so that God was no longer a necessary concept and the soul was 'a needless hypothesis,' any Christian classical conception of reason and will were dismissed. Knowledge was no longer regarded as the internalization of an external object into a soul that no longer existed through a contemplative process that no longer could happen. Now it was, as Dewey said, 'the adaptation of an organism to its environment.' The will was no longer regarded as the faculty by which the individual overcame his appetites, but as a supreme appetite to propagate the species. Consequently, the twentieth century is the story of the neglect of reason and will and the exaltation of appetite. It may be that modern education is summarized in that single sentence."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 28, 2010 (boomark / email).