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WHO WE ARE:
Continue the Conversation
What if the divisions we have been taught to accept were never necessary in the first place?The Enlightenment promised humanity greater freedom through reason and knowledge. Yet its ideals could also be appropriated, its disciplines divided, and its achievements turned into instruments of institutional power.We inherited an educational system that increasingly separates scientific inquiry from artistic expression, reason from emotion, and intellectual achievement from human understanding.These divisions have consequences. They shape what we learn, how we think, how we understand one another, and how easily institutions can define our place in the world.Ab Aeterno examines that inheritance through three interconnected missions.These three books explore what happened, what it has done to us, and what we can do differently.
THE MEN BENEATH THE UNIFORM
Recover the individual.
Look beneath the categories through which society defines men. Examine what happens when duty, productivity, institutional expectations, and social roles obscure the humanity of the individuals who fulfil them.
AB AETERNO
The Unfinished Conversation of the Enlightenment and Sturm und DrangUnderstand what happened.
Examine the unfinished conversation between reason and feeling, how Enlightenment ideals were appropriated, and how the resulting divisions continue to influence education, institutions, technology, and artificial intelligence.
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THINKING AND FEELING
Change what the next generation inherits.
Give children the intellectual and emotional foundations to question inherited divisions, think independently, recognise their own humanity, and build beyond what previous generations accomplished.
