Learning to Behold (Part Two)

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Learning to Behold (Part Two)

Why you should watch old movies

Anthony Esolen

Mar 24, 2023

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For some years now I have been saying that we cannot allow the television, or the movie screen, or, God forbid, the leaking sewer of popular novels to form our imaginations. Nor do I retract it. My point was and still is that the prime fashioner of our metaphysical and moral imagination – the faculty whereby we recognize the beauty of what is, and the g…

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