Roger Scruton - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:00:11 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Roger Scruton - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 New UK Catholic university to teach canon of western thought https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/03/13/new-uk-catholic-university-to-teach-canon-of-western-thought/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:05:05 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=68970 A new Catholic university is to open in London next year, backed by philosophers Roger Scruton and Anthony O'Hear. Students will spend the first term on a grand tour of Italy and will learn the "canon of western thought" at the university. The institution, named Benedictus after St Benedict of Nursia, will charge students NZ$25,000 Read more

New UK Catholic university to teach canon of western thought... Read more]]> A new Catholic university is to open in London next year, backed by philosophers Roger Scruton and Anthony O'Hear.

Students will spend the first term on a grand tour of Italy and will learn the "canon of western thought" at the university.

The institution, named Benedictus after St Benedict of Nursia, will charge students NZ$25,000 a year.

The university will be open to 50 students next year, who will study, among an exhaustive list, Galileo, Descartes, Leonardo, and Chaucer, as well as Plato, Aristotle and Aquinas.

They will also study the Bible and Homer.

Benedictus will be the fourth Catholic university in England.

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