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Back to SearchPhilosophy Versus the Liberal Arts | Episode LXXXIX
Episode 89
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The wise man, like Abraham, does not spurn Hagar. For she is merely preparatory to Sarah. This is the analogy that the great Jewish Platonist, Philo of Alexandria, makes when discussing…
Published on 5 months ago
Christian Gnosticism? | Episode LXXXVIII
Episode 88
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Clement of Alexandria was one of the many luminaries of the Catechectical School of Alexandria, one of the early church's most distinguished centers of learning and theology. His argume…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Replacing Machiavelli with Francesco Patrizi, feat. James Hankins | Episode LXXXVII
Episode 87
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Niccolo Machiavelli is often held up as the paradigmatic political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. But as James Hankins argued in an earlier book, Virtue Politics, Machiavelli i…
Published on 6 months ago
Using Paganism to Christianize the Pagans | Episode LXXXVI
Episode 86
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In his lifetime, John Chrysostom witnessed the true beginning of Christendom: the Emperor Theodosius confirmed the public standing of Christianity over that of paganism and delivered a …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Hieronymus Option | Episode LXXXV
Episode 85
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Can Christians read and appreciate pagan literature? The vexed relationship between the Church and a world that hates it has generated many different responses. The most popular recent …
Published on 7 months ago
Why Modern Literature Stinks | Episode LXXXIV
Episode 84
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In the final chapter of Climbing Parnassus, Tracy Lee Simmons distinguishes between the "skills" and the "content" arguments for classical study, and says that the skills argument is in…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Declines and Falls of Classical Education | Episode LXXXIII
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Classical education has declined and fallen before - as the Roman Empire succumbed to internal weakness and external threats, so did its bilingual educational regime. Humanists in the R…
Published on 8 months ago
Will Classical Schools Climb Parnassus? | Episode LXXXII
Episode 82
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A truly classical education is centered on the study of the Classics: the ancient languages and literatures of Greece and Rome. The adjective "classical" is thus a misnomer for a school…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
"The Church Is Like the Ancient Roman State" | Episode LXXXI
Episode 81
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The Renaissance humanist Biondo Flavio dedicated his massive book Roma Triumphans, a historical investigation of what made Rome great, to his fellow humanist Pope Pius II. He contended …
Published on 9 months ago
What the Modern World Lost | Episode LXXX
Episode 80
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Representative government, freedom of religion, the right to privacy - these are just some of the liberties of the modern world which we cherish. But at what cost? After the French Revo…
Published on 10 months ago