As many sense the failures of modern educational theories and experiments, a desire for a return to ancient studies arises. Many desire to return to the study of ancient languages or classical reasoning or rhetoric or moral philosophy, but moderns get nervous when talk begins of classical natural sciences or mathematics.
“There is one order that reason does not establish but only beholds, such is the order of things in nature.”
St.Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics
“The function of natural philosophy is to consider the order of things that human reason considers but does not establish-understand that with natural philosophy here we also include metaphysics.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics
