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These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy. There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.
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Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Plutarch
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This is my entire discussion of the opening to Thucydides's Peloponnesian War for the Technology & Nihilism series on my website (AthensCorner.com). In this recording I read in its entirety, and discuss in very meticulous, detail the first twenty-two paragraphs of Thucydides's Peloponnesian War, commonly referred to as "the Archaeology." At issue i…
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Christianity, Philosophy, and "Modernity" (part 1)
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Broadly speaking, the theme of the series that I provide in philosophy on my website, AthensCorner.com, center around the various relationships in which philosophy and divine revelation have existed together in the Western philosophical tradition, whether for the Greeks, the medieval Scholastics, the Moderns with their "Modern" science, or the Post…
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In preparing to begin an entire series on Plato's longest dialogue the "Laws" for my website AthensCorner.com, I use an almost casual comment by Aristotle in his discussion (or logos) on slavery in the Politics to discuss the way in which inquiry into the art of politics unfolds, and almost immediately (!), into the entirety of philosophy. Among ot…
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If you're enjoying the recordings I've been providing here and you're curious about my larger project with AthensCorner.com and my own story, then I think you'll find this brief discussion interesting and hopefully as enjoyable as the others.Από τον Athens Corner
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Eros, Honor, and The Shield of Achilles in Homer
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This is my discussion in its entirety of The Shield of Achilles from the Technology & Nihilism series on my website (AthensCorner.com). The purpose of this discussion is to reveal the teaching in Homer's Iliad on this thing we call "technology." This is particularly important for us because of the way in which we tend to mistakenly believe that the…
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This is my second discussion on Homer's Odyssey for the Fathers & Sons series on my website (AthensCorner.com). I've provided the entirety of the discussion here because I believe that what Homer provides us with is still so very urgent and relevant for us today and, in particular, for fathers seeking to have a direct involvement in educating their…
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Talk of Nietzsche is almost always synonymous with talk of the "Overman [Übermensch]," and so what I do in this discussion is introduce a number of the most definitive themes in Nietzsche's thought by way of an introduction to the Overman in his thought. To achieve this goal, I begin with the importance of Goethe's Faust for Nietzsche, and then I c…
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This is the first half of a discussion in which I broadly but rigorously introduce the most definitive characteristic of Postmodern philosophy and how that characteristic is inherently related to what we refer to as "technology" and PreModern philosophy. Specifically, I discuss the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Jünger, Martin Heidegger, and…
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This is the trailer of a discussion for the series I'm doing on the entire text of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the entire discussion is available on my AthensCorner.com website for subscribers). At issue here is Zarathustra's turn from the critique of the hinterworldly to the metaphysical concept of "being" and, for Zarathustra, the psychol…
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This is the preview to my first discussion of Homer's Odyssey for the "Fathers & Sons" series on my website AthensCorner.com (it is the sequel to my previous discussion here of the Biblical Samson). At issue here is what we do not find in the story of Samson, namely, the relationship between a father and son wherein the son journeys to know his fat…
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This is the trailer of a discussion for the series I'm doing on the entire text of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the entire discussion is available on my AthensCorner.com website for subscribers). At issue in Zarathustra's speech here is everything encompassed in the phrase "the transvaluation of all values" (or "the revaluation of all values…
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This is the full recording of a discussion for the series "Technology and Nihilism" in philosophy on my website AthensCorner.com. At issue here is what Thucydides understands himself as providing us in his text. Accordingly, the question at hand in the opening of the text is this: Is Thucydides's text simply or merely "history," or does he understa…
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This is the trailer of the full recording of a discussion for the series "Technology and Nihilism" in philosophy on my website AthensCorner.com. After having previously discussed the first paragraph of the text, here I discuss the significance of Thucydides for current discussions of what we think of today as "technology." I discuss how the opening…
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This is the trailer of the full recording of a discussion for the series I'm doing on the entire text of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra in philosophy on my website AthensCorner.com. At issue here is Zarathustra's new beginning after his initial failure. He has become an insurgent in order to achieve his political and, in fact, planetary, projec…
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This is the trailer of the full recording of a discussion for the series I'm doing on the entire text of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra in philosophy on my website AthensCorner.com. Having just begun his new beginning by discussing what is required in order to become his "brother," Zarathustra learns the wisdom being taught to the youth. That i…
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This is my discussion in its entirety of the Biblical Samson for the "Fathers & Sons" series on my website (AthensCorner.com). The purpose of the series on my website is to assist and guide fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in many of the greatest books of our Western heritage. At issue here in the Samson discussion is the responsib…
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