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Episode 100
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In celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of th…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX
Episode 99
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Socrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at leas…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Do "Christian" and "Classical" Go Together? feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XCVIII
Episode 98
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In the 4th century AD, two Christian friends - Basil and Gregory - travelled from Cappadocia to Athens to go study Greek literature w…
6 months ago
Jocks Versus Nerds | Episode XCVII
Episode 97
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We tend to think of the Athenians as philosophers, architects, and mathematicians. But their highest devotion was rather to sports an…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
That Other Dorothy Sayers Lecture | Episode XCVI
Episode 96
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Everyone knows "The Lost Tools of Learning." But did you know Dorothy Sayers delivered another, longer, and even more interesting lec…
7 months ago
Ahh, the Greeks! | Episode XCV
Episode 95
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"Παιδεία found its realization in παιδεραστία." This is how Henri-Irénée Marrou characterizes the relationship between paideia and pe…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Is Christianity Kitsch? | Episode XCIV
Episode 94
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What if we find Norse myth or Greco-Roman myth more aesthetically pleasing than Christianity? Should we believe in the pagan gods ins…
8 months ago
Sparta: Appalling and Enthralling | Episode XCIII
Episode 93
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THIS IS SPARTA. Xenophon said that, even in his day, the rest of the Greeks thought Sparta's laws wholly strange: "all men praise suc…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Sparta Before the Reactionary Turn | Episode XCII
Episode 92
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We think of Sparta as a grim place, more of a military barracks with some civilians attached than an actual city. Its inhumane marria…
9 months ago
How to Raise an Achilles | Episode XCI
Episode 91
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Plato called Homer "the educator of all Greece." But what is a Homeric education? What were the Greeks learning from their supreme ba…
9 months, 2 weeks ago