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Thymos, feat. Ian Dagg | Episode CXVIII
Thymos, feat. Ian Dagg | Episode CXVIII
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Join the hosts of New Humanists and founders of the Ancient Language Institute, Jonathan Roberts and Ryan Hammill, on their quest to discover what a renewed humanism looks like for the modern world. The Ancient Language Institute is an online language school and think tank, dedicated to changing the way ancient languages are taught.
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- Thymos, feat. Ian Dagg | Episode CXVIII · 1 h 27 min · Episodul 118Send us Fan Mail Leontius was passing by the corpses of executed Athenians and tried not to look. But eventually, giving in, he ran over and leaned in to stare. "Have your fill!"…
- Erotics and Harmonics, feat. Patrick Downey | Episode CXVII · 1 h 22 min · Episodul 117Send us Fan Mail Patrick Downey, professor of philosophy at St. Mary's College of California, returns to New Humanists to discuss Book Three of Plato's Republic. Why does…
- The Ring of Gyges and the City of Pigs, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CXVI · 1 h 20 min · Episodul 116Send us Fan Mail Glaucon restarts the conversation about justice at the beginning of Book Two of Plato's Republic with this stipulation: Socrates must prove that justice is good…
- How Not to Define Justice, feat. Colin Redemer | Episode CXV · 1 h 29 min · Episodul 115Send us Fan Mail When you first pick up the world's most famous work of philosophy, Plato's Republic, you might be surprised to find that it starts with Socrates describing a day…
- The Charlotte Mason Episode | Episode CXIV · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 114Send us Fan Mail Charlotte Mason argues that all education is ultimately self-education. Unless a student makes the choice to assimilate knowledge into himself, he will not learn…
- Real Culture, or Culture as Costume? | Episode CXIII · 1 h 11 min · Episodul 113Send us Fan Mail Properly understood, politics is an expression of culture. But the politician would like to use culture for political ends. In doing so, he boils his people's…
- Protestant and Catholic Culture | Episode CXII · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 112Send us Fan Mail Since the time of the Reformation, England has had an established Church alongside a rich variety of Protestant Dissenters as well as a group of Roman Catholic…
- Nationalism and High Culture | Episode CXI · 1 h 8 min · Episodul 111Send us Fan Mail T.S. Eliot argues that cultural vitality depends in part upon a balance of unity and diversity in a nation with respect to its various regions. But this raises…
- Plato the Educator | Episode CX · 1 h 1 min · Episodul 110Send us Fan Mail Two ways to support the show and unlock bonus episodes: Download and subscribe to Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/ Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes…
- Socrates and the Sophists, feat. David Talcott | Episode CIX · 59 min · Episodul 109Send us Fan Mail Two ways to support the show and unlock bonus episodes: Download and subscribe to Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/ Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes…
- The Case Against Meritocracy | Episode CVIII · 1 h 3 min · Episodul 108Send us Fan Mail Two ways to support the show and unlock bonus episodes: Download and subscribe to Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/ Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes…
- Defining "Culture" | Episode CVII · 1 h 9 min · Episodul 107Send us Fan Mail Download Ekho: ancientlanguage.com/ekho/ Subscribe to New Humanists+ for bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1791279/subscribe Pop culture. Cancel culture…
- Technology Versus the Classics, feat. Timothy Griffith | Episode CVI · 53 min · Episodul 106Send us Fan Mail When the Loeb Classical Library was launched, the greatest language teacher of the age, W.H.D. Rouse, wrote an essay meant to promote the Loebs by extolling the…
- Straussian Aristocracy, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CV · 1 h 15 min · Episodul 105Send us Fan Mail Liberal education is for the man of leisure: Either a gentleman engaged in politics, or a philosopher engaged in contemplation. What role, then, can liberal…
- Out of the Steppe, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIV · 59 min · Episodul 104Send us Fan Mail What do you think of laryngeals? How should we refer to the Anatolian languages? Where do you stand on Gimbutas and Renfrew? In this episode of New Humanists…
- Enter the Indo-Europeans, feat. Colin Gorrie | Episode CIII · 1 h 10 min · Episodul 103Send us Fan Mail Supposedly, about half of the world population speaks languages that all come from one root language: Proto-Indo-European. How do we know, and where did "PIE"…
- The Sophists Are the Founders of Classical Education | Episode CII · 54 min · Episodul 102Send us Fan Mail The classical education revival movement began in the 1980s as a DIY, grassroots attempt to recover the medieval liberal arts, most notably the Trivium of…
- Big Bad Leo Strauss, feat. Pavlos Papadopoulos | Episode CI · 1 h 12 min · Episodul 101Send us Fan Mail What is liberal education? It's the prompt that has launched one thousand essays, and in a 1959 lecture at the University of Chicago, the (in)famous Leo Strauss…
- Time Present, Time Past, Time Future | Episode C · 2 h 0 min · Episodul 100Send us Fan Mail In celebration of the 100th episode of New Humanists, we do an extended episode that is a retrospective, discussing the history of the Ancient Language Institute…
- Socrates Had It Coming | Episode XCIX · 1 h 5 min · Episodul 99Send us Fan Mail Socrates taught his students contempt for the gods, how to defraud creditors, and useless trivialities about flea-jumping. Or at least, that's how Socrates…
