The One Aristotle Argument Professor Owen Anderson Uses to Break Open Freshman Philosophy | The Furrows

Send us Fan MailProfessor Owen Anderson teaches philosophy and religious studies at Arizona State University, where starts every intro philosophy class with "where did your life go so wrong?"  In this conversation, Ryan and Alex trace his journey from a curious teenager in Arizona public schools to a philosophy professor working to recover what education has lost.What's in This Episode:How discovering the Great Books in a school library set Owen on the path to philosophy and why students today still hunger for that kind of intellectual engagementThe farming analogy for education: why cultivating students requires patience, and what teacher narcissism costs a classroom over timeAristotle's proof for the highest good and the eternal—and how Owen uses these arguments in introductory philosophy at ASUJohn Dewey's vision for democratizing education, how it went wrong, and why Mortimer Adler's answer offers a better wayOwen's book The Twelve Arguments and how natural theology connects to the American founding and the Declaration of IndependenceChapters:00:00: Welcome and a Note on Audio Quality00:47: Introducing Professor Owen Anderson02:30: Discovering the Great Books in High School08:49: Early Questions About Faith, Truth, and Certainty13:22: The Farming Analogy: Why Education Takes Time17:00: What Students Lose in the Industrial University26:14: Aristotle on the Good and the Eternal41:09: John Dewey, Mortimer Adler, and the Democratization of Education51:29: Charlie Kirk as the Campus Socrates58:56: The Twelve Arguments, Natural Law, and the American FoundingResources Mentioned:The Twelve Arguments by Owen AndersonAfter Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyreClassical Learning TestArcadia EducationHosted by Ryan Klopak (Arcadia Education) and Alex Julian (CLT). The Furrows podcast features leaders in classical education who have been transformed by classical education. Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.