On the inseparability of reasoning and virtue: Madame de Maintenon's Maison royale de <scp>Saint‐Louis</scp>

This paper engages with the curriculum at Madame de Maintenon's school for girls Saint-Cyr to raise and address a set of questions: What is it teach someone reason? The curricular materials suggest that learning reason matter practice. How one distinguish autonomous giving from habituation or automatic trained responses? can practices in informed by social mores have objective validity? Moreover, if we think role philosopher as cultivation rational faculties recognize how this played bound up norms, what standards ought evaluate whether philosophical educator good bad? Intertwined discussion also question about limits philosophy question.