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Episode 60
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Aeneas Silvius was an accomplished Renaissance humanist, author of erotic literature, and influential aide to emperors and popes (and…
2 years, 3 months ago
Prince Erasmus | Episode LIX
Episode 59
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Jonathan and Ryan turn to a set of selections from the Prince of Humanists himself, Desiderius Erasmus. In Liber Antibarbarorum, Eras…
2 years, 3 months ago
All Education Is Religious | Episode LVIII
Episode 58
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"As only the Catholic and communist know, all education must be ultimately religious education." So argues T.S. Eliot in his essay "M…
2 years, 4 months ago
Compassion Versus Classical Antiquity | Episode LVII
Episode 57
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In The Greek State, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that the Greek polis existed in order to hold the many in slavery so that the Olympian…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nietzsche, Homer, and Cruelty | Episode LVI
Episode 56
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Why was it that the Greeks, the most humane of all peoples, also possessed such a tigerish lust for blood? Why did the Greeks so deli…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Mirror for Princes | Episode LV
Episode 55
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Thomas Elyot wrote "The Boke named the Governour," the first book about education written in the English language, an outstanding exa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Martin Luther for Public Schools (or, Don't Be an Ostrich) | Episode LIV
Episode 54
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"Simple necessity has forced men, even among the heathen, to maintain pedagogues and schoomasters if their nation was to be brought t…
2 years, 7 months ago
Only the Weak Desire a Quiet Life | Episode LIII
Episode 53
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Ulrich Zwingli was one of the towering figures of the Reformation, a committed humanist, and a warrior who ultimately fell in battle.…
2 years, 8 months ago
Return of the Old Gods in Germany | Episode LII
Episode 52
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In the opening lecture of his course on Homer, the Professor of Greek at the University of Wittenberg, Phillip Melanchthon, first inv…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Warm and Capacious Calvin | Episode LI
Episode 51
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A stern prophet of the new and harsh doctrine of predestination. A bloodthirsty tyrant burning people at the stake. A narrowminded do…
2 years, 9 months ago