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.
Ep. 16 - Harry Lewis and Stephen Blackwood: What's an Education For?
Ep. 15 – Theodore Dalrymple on Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons”
Ep. 14 - The Morality of Satire: Andrew Doyle and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 13 - On the Freedom of Thought and Nature: Freeman Dyson and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 12 - A Discussion of 'Ivan Ilyich:' Donna Orwin and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 11 - Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Ep. 10 - Independence in an Age of Conformity: Stephen Wolfram & Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 9 - Deep Thinking in a Distracted World: Cal Newport and Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 8 - On Freedom and Truth: Yeonmi Park & Stephen Blackwood
Ep. 7 - Douglas Hedley and Stephen Blackwood: Reason, Imagination, and Reality
Ep. 6 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: The Unfolding of Life and Thought
Ep. 5 - Iain McGilchrist and Stephen Blackwood: On Finding Ourselves Within the Whole
Ep. 4 - Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy
Ep. 3 - Jordan Peterson and Stephen Blackwood: Our Cultural Inflection Point and Higher Education
Ep. 2 - Jordan Peterson and Roger Scruton: On the Transcendent
Ep. 1 - Douglas Murray and Stephen Blackwood: On Ideological Madness and Its Antidote
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