The Gutenberg Podcast Archiv
55 Episoden
1 Stunde 2 Minuten
Brian Julian joins the podcast to talk about Rousseau's Social Contract, the "General Will", and why sometimes the questions authors are asking are more helpful than their answers.
1 Stunde 3 Minuten
Eliot Grasso stops by to broadly survey the history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, all while discussing how institutional failure leads to people looking for alternatives.
1 Stunde 5 Minuten
Brian Julian discusses Kant's major contribution to epistemology, where that has lead to in contemporary philosophy, and how we should think about Kant's insights as Christians.
57 Minuten
Chris Swanson returns to discuss Thomas Reid, Reid's critique of the "Ideal System", and how Common Sense relates to philosophy.
59 Minuten
Naomi Rinehold offers an unconventional way to think about David Hume's Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, along with how to think about the difference between an author's meaning and an author's significance.
57 Minuten
Charley Dewberry discusses the projects of Locke and Berkeley in preparation for upcoming episodes about David Hume and Thomas Reid.
1 Stunde 1 Minute
Chris Swanson lays out Descartes's project, what Descartes was responding to, and how Descartes has influenced Western Civilization.
1 Stunde 6 Minuten
Eliot Grasso sits down to talk about Francis Bacon and his most famous work, Novum Organum, and whether Bacon should be remembered as either a villain or a good scientist.
57 Minuten
Charley Dewberry lays out why the Science Curriculum--focused on the Copernican Revolution--is central to the Gutenberg project.
1 Stunde 6 Minuten
Naomi Rinehold returns to discuss what Boccaccio's Decameron contributed to the Renaissance and the value of such comedic works during times of crisis.
1 Stunde
Charley Dewberry explains how Genghis Khan and the Mongols formed the first economic--instead of political--empire, and how this has affected Western Civilization.
53 Minuten
Brian Julian walks us through Anselm's ontological proof of God's existence, some critiques of that proof, and whether proof is even necessary for faith.
58 Minuten
Eliot Grasso helps digest some key features of Western Medieval Civilization, and its need to harmonize church infrastructure, Greek philosophy, and the teaching of the Bible.
51 Minuten
Chris Swanson discusses Rome's transition from Republic to Empire, what factors contributed to that transition, and how that might be important for understanding our own place in history.
34 Minuten
Eliot Grasso returns to talk about Polybius, a Greek historian who wrote about why the Roman republic was politically stable despite the tendency of governments to disintegrate.
