A Catholic Socialist - 1014 Words

In Dreadful Conversations: The Making of a Catholic Socialist (2003), John C. Cort quoted Irving Babbitt saying, â€Å"Rousseau abandoned his five children, one after the other, but had, we are told, an unspeakable affection for his dog.†1 Irving Babbitt certainly had no love loss for Jean-Jacques Rousseau not only because of his abandonment of his children but because Rousseau was the antithesis of Babbitt. Even though both Babbitt and Rousseau offer revolutionary ideas that affected their societies, their educational and religious philosophies differed in many ways. On education, Babbitt and Rousseau exhibited contrasting ideas. Rousseau’s views on education centered upon human liberty in educational pursuits. However, Babbitt was more about structure in educational pursuits. Babbitt wrote, â€Å"[Bacon and thereby Rousseau] do not have the humanist’s passion for wholeness, for the harmonious rounding out of all the faculties.†2 In contrast to Babbitt, Rousseau and Bacon believed that one should â€Å"burrow ever more and more deeply into his own specialty.†3 Babbitt continued, â€Å"The scientific and sentimental naturalist are sharply at variance on many points, but in their views on education they often coincide curiously.†4 As opposed to Bacon and Rousseau, Babbitt was the opposite of a scientific/sentimental naturalist. Babbitt believed in the value of a classical education and the foundation that came through those offerings. He wrote, â€Å"Classical literature, at its best, does not soShow MoreRelatedUnmanageable Divisions: The Result of Bismarckian Politics in Turn of the Century Germany1634 Words   |  7 Pagespurposes of this paper it will begin with the first instance of mass internal turbulence, caused by Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, or the struggle between the Catholic Church and the German Empire. The battle between Germany and the Church began in the 1860s, before unification. German hostilities toward France and Austria, the two predominantly Catholic states of Europe, escalated with the papal issuing of The Syllabus of Errors and with the declaration of papal infallibility. Bruce Waller describes TheRead Morehistory As germany and italy Essay1360 Words   |  6 Pages‘politica l divisions’, Giolitti was trying to reform and modernise Italy during his periods in power as Prime Minister. 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