Attend.

Soulcraft is the formation of attention that gets us to attend to the things that matter, not the things on the surface. It’s the cultivation of thinking critically for yourself so you’re willing to speak in such a way that you exercise what Socrates called parrhesia, which is clear speech, frank speech, fearless speech, unintimidated speech, speech that flows from your soul not to show that you’re clever and smart, but to show that you’re courageous and wise.

There is a qualitative distinction between success in the mainstream and greatness from the vantage point of a freedom movement and we have reduced all talk about greatness to just success in the mainstream.

Rev. Dr. Cornell West

Robert George and Cornel West on C-SPAN's In Depth (I found the section on "Soulcraft" from 13:00 - 23:00 very interesting) ...



Personal authenticity, in the classical understanding of liberal-arts education, consists in self-mastery—in placing reason in control of desire. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires—it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

Robert P. George

George and West discuss The Examined Life and the value of a liberal arts education ...