Have we killed Homer for good? Stephen Blackwood and historian-farmer Victor Davis Hanson examine the state of the contemporary West by returning to its ancient Greek origins. They explore the richness of its first principles, including self-critique, the elevation of rational understanding, the democratization of learning, and the unification of thought and action. They also bring to light our current cultural crisis: the uncritical rejection of the inherited past, an intellectualism divorced from reality, and a surrender to relativism at the cost of true self-reflection. They close by reflecting on the lateness of the hour, and offer a vital call to seek and speak truth, to ignite the fire of independence of mind, and to remember that while we may know more than those who came before, they are, as T.S. Eliot said, that which we know.
Serious Play: Renaissance Wisdom and Cosmic Choreography | Sophia Lecture 2023 Part 5/5
Unveiling Aesthetics: Art, Suffering, and Transcendence | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 4/5
Wisdom in Paradox: The Seriousness of Play | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 3/5
Exploring the Inner Word: Play, Poetry, Philosophy | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 2/5
The Spirit of Play in Shaping Culture, Creativity, and Spirituality | Sophia Lectures 2023 Part 1/5
The Spirit of Play: A Conversation with Professor Douglas Hedley and Dr Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 30 - From the Cave of Pythagoras: A Lecture and Discussion with Douglas Hedley
Ep. 29 - Marie Kawthar Daouda: Baudelaire and the Creation of the Poetic Self
Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part II
Ep. 26 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part I
Ep. 25 - Theodore Dalrymple on H. G. Wells's 'The Time Machine'
Ep. 24 - Vernon Smith: Self-Interest Reconsidered
Ep. 23 - Iain McGilchrist: The Coincidence of Opposites
Ep. 22 - Marwa Al-Sabouni: Architecture as a Matter of Life or Death
Ep. 21 - Alexander Stoddart: Culture as Communion with the Dead
Ep. 20 - On Becoming Alan Dershowitz
Ep. 18 – Andrew Doyle on Free Speech and Why It Matters
Ep. 17 - Alexander Stoddart: A Conversation in His Studio
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