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Episode 30
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Is knowledge its own end? Or is it a means to something else? In Discourse Five of his The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman ju…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Classical Definition of Classical Education | Episode XXIX
Episode 29
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Milton and Shakespeare? Or Homer and Virgil? Why should our students study Greeks and Romans when we have English-language poets, phi…
3 years, 8 months ago
Doing the (Intellectual) Work | Episode XXVIII
Episode 28
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The intellectual life can’t just be reading all day. Eventually, you have to sit down and do the work. According to A.G. Sertillanges…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Intellectual Life, Continued | Episode XXVII
Episode 27
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Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of A.G. Sertillanges’s marvelous The Intellectual Life. In chapters 4 -6, Sertillanges to…
3 years, 9 months ago
Me, an Intellectual | Episode XXVI
Episode 26
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The French Thomist A.G. Sertillanges, O.P., is most famous for The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods. The book is a …
3 years, 9 months ago
Academic Leadership | Episode XXV
Episode 25
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Who is at the helm of the ship of state? Is the United States doomed to go the way of the Titanic? In the essay “Academic Leadership,…
3 years, 10 months ago
Justin Martyr’s First Apology, feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XXIV
Episode 24
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Was Socrates a Christian? Did Plato meet Jeremiah? Are pagan myths based on garbled versions of the Hebrew prophets? Welcome to Justi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Beowulf, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode XXIII
Episode 23
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Where is Geatland? Beowulf has been taken as a founding poem for England, yet England never appears in the poem. Linguist Colin Gorri…
3 years, 11 months ago
Should Everyone Be Educated? | Episode 22
Episode 22
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Making humanistic education democratic and freely available was its downfall, at least in the eyes of Albert Jay Nock, as he discusse…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force | Episode XXI
Episode 21
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“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force,” wrote Simone Weil. And yet, she said that Homer’s poem is “the p…
4 years ago