"In Plato's Republic, Socrates leads a group of ambitious young
Athenians on a search for the best way of life. Their verbal
construction of a perfectly just regime is not motivated by idealism,
real or feigned, but by genuine perplexity about the one thing human
beings cannot help desiring: happiness. Glaucon, Adeimantus, and their
companions want to know what benefit justice provides in the soul that
could possibly outweigh the riches, powers, and pleasures intelligent
and enterprising men such as themselves expect to acquire through artful
injustice."
In a recent commentary, Dr. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., who teaches Political Science and pre-law at Saint Ambrose University, reflected on the role of great works of music in assisting us as we "advance virtue by virtue to the brightness of the
saints, pointing us to the sources of heavenly aid without which even
the mightiest among us can do nothing."
To access Dr. Hebert's complete essay, please visit:
The Imaginative Conservative: Music and the Education of the Christian Soul (5 JAN 19)
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