John Taylor GattoI urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. In the world of philosophy, the idea that life is a test has been raised before. In 1901, a group known as “The Transcendentalists” made the case that life is a trial from which those who survive will be rewarded with wisdom and virtue. Charles Sanders Peirce promoted this idea, adding that only those who are able to move beyond their humanity will be able to reach wisdom and virtue. These ideas were taken up by many philosophers in Europe and America in the late 19th century, most recently by John Dewey who wrote about “the soul’s battle for experience.”
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