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Season 12 Episode 17
Where have Allan Bloom's descriptions of the modern university gotten us? Where have all of these philosophical trends ended up? Join us as we discus…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
S12 E16: The Sixties
Season 12 Episode 16
Why did all university professors and administrators capitulate to the insane mobs of student radicals in the sixties? Find out as we continue discus…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
S12 E15: Swift's Doubts & Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
Season 12 Episode 15
What does Gulliver's Travels have to do with the development of the modern education system? Why does classical scholarship see renewed interests in …
3 months ago
S12 E14: The Philosophic Experience & The Enlightenment Transformation
Season 12 Episode 14
Was Socrates really all that great? What does he have to say about education, anyway? Find out as we discuss Socrates' impact on the idea and purpose…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
S12 E13: Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life & The Relation between Thought and Civil Society
Season 12 Episode 13
Can education actually exist without tradition? In the equalizing system of democracy, is education ever really valuable? Should we just give up on t…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
S12 E12: Our Ignorance
Season 12 Episode 12
How do we recover Western Civilization from its current state? How do we get people to recognize that there is more to our foundations than we realiz…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
S12 E11: The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Season 12 Episode 11
Marxism is boring now. So says Allan Bloom. Join us as we discuss the omnipresence of Marxism among the Left, and why the philosophy of the class str…
4 months ago
S12 E10: Values
Season 12 Episode 10
What happens to a culture when rationalism takes precedence over belief in anything eternal? Exactly what we've seen over the past 70 years, of cours…
4 months, 1 week ago
S12 E9: Culture
Season 12 Episode 9
What exactly is culture? Is it just the food, clothing, and habits of a people, or is it something more? Does human nature really exist, or should we…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
S12 E8: The Self and Creativity
Season 12 Episode 8
What is man, really? Do we have a purpose, or should we just listen to our desires and shape the world the way we want it to be? Are the ends of thin…
4 months, 3 weeks ago