“there are no eternal moral values or moral standards… no conduct intrinsically good or bad, no moral responsibility; there are no good men or bad men; no heroes, no honest men, no scoundrels; there are only ‘cases’ (neurotic or badly conditioned).”
Well, having dug himself into a hole that deep, how is man ever going to get out? More than thirty years ago Irving Babbitt wrote, “under certain conditions that are already partly in sight, the Catholic Church may perhaps be the only institution left in the Occident that can be counted on to uphold civilized standards.” That is certainly the feeling one gets from reading this comparison of a Catholic philosophy of education with the nihilism of Dewey and his epigoni.
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