Classical Liberal Arts Academy Studium

This lecture provides a comprehensive study of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 4, following the classical Studium Method. Students will examine Aristotle's foundational teaching on happiness (eudaimonia) as the supreme good that all human actions aim toward. The lecture explores the confusion about what happiness truly is, introduces Aristotle's methodological approach to ethical study, and emphasizes the importance...

This lecture explains Aristotle’s teaching that moral virtue is known, formed, increased, and corrupted through pleasure and pain. Students will study why right education trains the soul to love what is good and hate what is evil, and why&...

Note: I make these talks while walking on a wooded trail on the back of our farm. The day this was recorded, a neighbor was cutting and grinding some trees on the neighboring farm property.  That machinery can be heard in the background. For the transcript of the talk, click here:

https://classicalliberalarts.com/blog/dont-be-presumptuous-about-family-planning/

In this talk, I answer an important question from a young Catholic...

In this talk William Michael challenges common reverence for Socrates and modern “Socratic” education, arguing that destabilizing doubt—when unaccompanied by systematic instruction—can corrode faith, culture, and learning. He contrasts Platonic dialectical methods with Aristotelian demonstrative philosophy and calls for a recovery of systematic, authoritative teaching rooted in Aristotle and Aquinas.

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This talk answers the following questions, received from a contact.

1) When you refer to "classical education" what exactly is it that you mean?  What is the exact curriculum that you are trying to recreate?  Where/when in history is this curriculum?

2) If "classical" refers to Ancient Greece and Rome, would it be more accurate to say you provide a "Scholastic" curriculum?  I ask because I noticed about a third of yo...

"Trustworthy are the blows of a friend, dangerous, the kisses of an enemy." (Prov. 27:6)

“Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” (C.S. Lewis...

In this lecture, we examine the New Testament evidence concerning the apostle Peter and his unique role among the Twelve. Rather than beginning with later Church history or theological claims, this talk proceeds directly from Scripture. We first define what is meant by the “Pope” — not as a later title, but as an office: a visible head of the Church entrusted with a unique pastoral authority for the sake of unity....