About Theodore Rebard

Theodore P. Rebard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He taught for two years at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. Prof. Rebard earned his Ph.D. at Boston College and has been teaching since 1976, when he was first awarded a teaching fellowship at Boston College.

On Distance “Learning”

By |2022-06-25T16:33:53-05:00May 8th, 2020|Categories: Coronavirus, Education, John Senior, Technology|

Now it is at its heights that education in universities has been forced to undertake the impossible errand of distance-learning with its virtual classrooms. It is true that there is some remaining love of truth, even in the virtual classroom, but the wine of this love is diluted where the immediate interpersonal bond is broken. [...]

Was Aristotle the Father of Radical Individualism?

By |2021-04-26T15:00:57-05:00June 18th, 2018|Categories: Aristotle, Great Books, Justice, Philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Virtue|

A recent essay proposes Aristotle to have “opened a path” to today’s radical individualism and relativism. In order to evaluate this thesis, we must turn to the Great Tradition of the “perennial philosophy” and ask what the great philosophers taught about virtue, justice, friendship, and the nature of man. There is a story about H.L. [...]

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