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Not a single episode I have not enjoyed yet. Probably the best podcast I have listened to. Humor reminds me of Always Sunny in Philadelphia podcast but philosophical and educational. Never cared to read CS Lewis or other books prior to this and now I find it real enjoyable. I have listened to Jordan Peterson, Jocko Willink, and Joe Rogan, and the Dark Horse Podcast. This currently is the one I enjoy the most and find the most useful as well. Please keep on making episodes!!

for anyone else listening to this wonderful podcast, you probably shouldn't take your American history from a Canadian classics teacher. 😉 the "shots heard round the world" to start the American revolution were in 2 towns in Massachusetts in 1775. the world's most famous breakup text (the declaration of independence) was sent to King George III in July 1776, airing all the grievances the colonists had to justify the war & their desire to break with the king & form their own new government. the war did in fact end "in the '80s" (1783)

I started out listening to get ideas for my upcoming lecture on PL for my community college Brit Lit students... I ended up just assigning the whole pod. Great stuff.

So dumb they might be religious... Where is the maths ?

There is a good saying in physics circles. "All models are wrong but some are useful" So all thought experiments are wrong in some way but some are close enough to be of use.

You are so funny, another funny thing, I am from Denmark too. And the "oh, no"s in the story of John Talbot was so sweet. The kingmaker was Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, not the duke of Norfolk. I do not remember his name, but I would guess, that he is the 1. Duke of Norfolk maybe the second.

This podcast presents a stunning indictment of our internet users - in four years this posting has received only about 555 Views and 4 Likes (and only one prior Comment)... I guess our society does not like facing facts? Still, thank you for posting this talk on Erasmus (a personal hero of mine) and of his valuable work.

If there ever was an episode where I wanted video.

Since this is part two in a series, I find "part cast" perfectly describing. I love it, I will use it from now on 😂 Thank you 😂

Longshanks was the first Edward not the second. And the religious people are not the lombards, who are an old tribe now the people from Lombardy in northen Italy, but the lollards. I like your humour though 😊

There is no evidence for a soul. Please define a soul and how can you demonstrate it exists?

Consider re-reading the end of Aeschylus' Eumenides. Who actually votes to acquit Orestes? It's also a backstory to the development of the Aereopagus and Athenian legal systems.

Thank you for this.

I just heard about the sermon of in Wartime from listening to an interview with Douglas Murray. And looked it up. Living in the Atomic Age got me through covid, and I did not know about this sermon (I am secular). I live in Israel and have wrestled with state authority and war. With life going on. Changing when under rocket fire, but continuing non the less. It speaks to my experience of war being an expression of the spectrum of what it is to be human. Facing my mortality and the mortality of people I love and civilians dying atrocious deaths. I grew up anti war, and have come to accept that it is part of the human condition. A very uncomfortable change in position. But also reality as I live it (seeing the limits of pacifism). As soon as left leaning commentators suggested the best response to Oct be recognizing Palestine and building an airport in Gaza, I lost all respect for people who do not live here and stake out ludicrous positions. (I'm not endorsing the IDF or Netanyahus' war goals or strategies. They betrayed and continue to betray the people of Israel. Just as Hamas betrays the Palestinian people living in Palestinian territories. I got a bit sidetracked there. Mostky I enjoyed the discussion on this sermon. It touches on themes that I am wrestling with living where I live.

2018 future thought " we expect 2020 to be better than 2018", 😮😉

Love it , keep up the good work ... Thank you .

Thank you! I’ve been reading this book and this discussion is very helpful in making sense of what Lewis is saying.

I don’t believe woland is Stalin. He is Mephistopheles and the master and m are michal and his third wife who had an affair before they married. And margarita did not ask the devil for anything for herself cos you never ask anything of powerful people. Jerusalem is USSR and Stalin is the remote emperor. Pilate is the state functionary too cowardly to do the right thing.

loved the addition of the troglodyte / sage bell curve memes hahaha this is a great podcast

Could it be that Margarita is made queen bc she is the one who truly believes this story of Pontius Pilate should be written? She’s the one trying to save it. The story is a thread that runs through this novel in a variety of ways - Woland starting the novel talking about it to prove Jesus was real, the Master writing it and people rejecting it, Margarita calling him a Master bc of his writing of this story, the Devil rewarding both the master and margarita and saving the story, and the Devil allowing Pontius pilot to redeem himself with Jesus. I don’t know much about the analogies to 20th century Soviet Union, but this importance on the decision to free Barabbas instead of Jesus weighing on Pontius Pilate running through the whole thing… that has to mean something significant, right? And the balance of good and evil in each character, just like that balance in pilot and the master and margarita and even woland? Also interesting that the actual author’s wife released the book. Kinda like she was his margarita.

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Things signified by the things signified is probably best understood as Platonic. That is, creation signifies or embodies a higher heavenly meaning. Creation is only a form of the real. Heavens meaning is contained within creation and what heaven signifies is signified within creation.

Hell yeah! I am pumped to see you on TH-cam.

Hey guys, I enjoyed this a lot. You mentioned the Ask Andrew podcast, which has episodes going back to 2017. I do post-production for all the CiRCE podcasts, and I wanted to let y'all know that we've published all the pre-2017 Ask Andrew episodes, from when it was hosted somewhere else, as well as audio from the “OG” Ask Andrew, the video series on CiRCE’s Vimeo channel. So now the episodes available on AA stretch back to 2012.

Just found this Channel. Great discussion. Thx you

"It also excluses a certain archaeological tendancy, a love of the past which turns away from present suffering, an esteem for the past which seems not to recognize the universal presence of God." I feel like he's calling you gentlemen out ;)

Do you know who that patient was called, the one who couldn't get himself out of his bed? I would love to know who it is and the article that talked about hyper-rationality!

“He marries this random Spanish princess” 🤦🏻‍♀️ She was princess of Navarre which bordered Richard’s angevin land in France, hardly random lol. Ntm the alliance helped free him from captivity later:

I wouldn’t say John was stupid… he had some pretty clever moments. Just the way of the devil’s brood, they can’t help but fck sht up lol

Hey, guys! I usually listen to you in Spotify. You guys are great! Keep up with this work!!

JJ McCullough just discussed this in MidCentury Liberalism was AWESOME. I agree that it seem a branch of a tree without a tree, which McCullough credits to postwar optimism. Interestingly, modern Popes often reference the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I guess it plays the role of a secular moral authority that can begin a dialogue with religious figures in today's world.

For the record I fully expect this series to continue indefinitely and turn your channel into a current royal family gossip podcast and I’m here for it

At least in my opinion, for anyone to say they wouldn’t have eaten the fruit unlike Adam and Eve is an incredible act of hubris. They were created in a world without sin and were tempted and deceived into eating the fruit. We are born into a fallen world, and have an inherent sinful nature as a result. Adam and Eve had the best shot at not falling out of every human ever born, with the exception of Jesus Christ.

A bastard sword is also known as a hand and a half sword. It’s like a step between either an arming sword and a longsword, or a longsword and a greatsword, I think it’s the latter

This title makes me laugh out loud

Such great content and resources. Thanks for such wonderful work!

Love you guys!

getting me through my essay 🙏

Hey guys!! I am a first-year teacher at a private school and will be moving to a classical charter school in the fall! I graduated from Hillsdale College and have been looking for a podcast that has the kinds of conversations you are having in every episode of your podcast episodes. I myself have toyed with the idea of doing something like this, but have not found the people to do it with yet. You have given me heart and hope in these discussions. I'm nervous about my move because I have never taught classically and have only had the Hillsdale experience to call classical (and even then, it wasn't fully classical). Through you, and the ideas you discuss, I am already learning a lot. Thank you!

Thank you gentlemen.

This was my very favorite cs lewis so far. We can't speak face to face with the gods until we have faces. Sniff. Perhaps because I have railed against God so often in my life, demanding answers when I am not owed answers.

I love the titles of all the Kant’s episodes 🤣

Woo just found this. New sub!

New subscriber here❤... Heard an episode of your podcast on Spotify last night and today morning subscribed your TH-cam channel❤ loved it.

The pomposity of of not knowing

Bronowski was a Visiting Fellow of the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences. WOW!!

I enjoyed this talk. I am a-gnostic and I am doing my own video essays on Fear and Trembling. Unsurprisingly I come away with many different perspectives (I am more comfortable calling Kierkegaard an existentialist) but I agreed with some stuff too. However (and I realise this was 3 years ago) I think one thing that was a clear mistake was to equate the KOIR and the T.Hero. They are two different characters, the Tragic Hero can "be mediated" (i.e. can communicate their purpose). The infinite resignation relates to the paradox of faith which is why it is a necessary precursor of faith.

Good luck. Loving your podcast.

Please guys this book deserves much better and deeper analysis. You are inteligent people and I think this analysis is bellow the level of yours. As a person coming from that area of Europe I feel obligated to write this…The symbolism is much more “layered”. I am saying this after many years of reading the book and from the top of my head for example. In order to truly understand but also “feel” this book…you have to do more research and immerse yourself into the “Russian soul” of the given era. 1-Read Russian/Soviet history of that era 2-Read about Stalin and Bulgakov and their relationship 3-”Cowardice is the most terrible of vices” is being told to Pilate in the book, Bulgakov was intelligent man he knew the truth about oppresion in USSR, but he was afraid to directly write about it out of fear, this book is his redemption and he wrote it close to the end of his life. This book as his redemption just like Pilate got his despite his cowardice. The book "Master and Margarita" is enough for "Ethernal peace" BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR HEAVEN. That is what he is trying to say and I almost feel rude trying to write it here since it is an insult trying to simplify it in this way. 4- “Master” is the best translation for the English language, in Slavic language this word has slightly different meaning, let say in this case it is more related to skill of Mastery/Knowledge/Wisdom. 5- Decadence of Muscovites once they denounce Christian moral values, and symbolism of the way of how each side character in the book experiences a different “moral fall" should not be ignored. 6-The meaning of certain names in the book that makes sense only in Slavic languages like for example Writer Bezdomni last name is composed of 2 words Bez-Without and Domni-Home,City, Country,Home Country… Why is Bezdomni last name signifying he has no Home Country? (Just like Raskolnikov soul from “Crime and Punishment”). 7-What is the symbol of numerous black cats that were caught and brought to the police? 8-What are the archetypes of Behemoth, Azazelo and Koroviev representing?How that relate to Soviet era? 9-What is a symbol of a person who dissapears and an empty "Suit" is signing the documents? How that relate to Soviet era? And many many many more... Dont take me wrong...The book could be interpreted in both ways, but by not having a prerequisite knowledge of the "Russian soul and history of the given era" you are depriving yourself from many TOOLS you'll need in order to get the context and proper analysis of the symbols in this book. My first language is not Enlgish I apologize for grammatical errors if there are some.