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Oakeshott Teaches Us How (and What) to Think, feat. Dale Stenberg | Episode XVIII

New Humanists

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Teaching the Art of the Ferrier

i once knew a wise man who, wishing to learn the art of the ferrier, looked not only for a man practised in the art, but for one accustomed to teaching. He was gratified when he found a ferrier who is also a teacher of boxing. I think that this is import because we live,. as karl truman thoroughly argued in his a recent book, the rise and triumph of the modern self. The identity of a person is sort of firm formed from an internal investigation of their passions and desires - then shoved into the civil sphere.

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