Nathan Gilmour discusses a chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s Cultivating Humanity with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

Download this Episode This is another episode from Theology Beer Camp, hosted by Homebrewed Christianity and The Hatchery.  In this one, Nathan Gilmour from The Christian Humanist chats with Todd…

Download this Episode At the end of his writing career, Friedrich Nietzsche writes one of the great lines of philosophical autobiography: “I am no man; I am dynamite.” But how…

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of Jonathan Edwards’s 1733 sermon “A Divine and Supernatural Light.”

Download or stream this episode Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Desiderius Erasmus’s mock-encomium The Praise of Folly.

Download or Stream this Episode Consider, friends, the final days of Socrates as Plato relates them in the Crito.  He refuses to flee Athens precisely because any protest he could…

Søren Kierkegaard’s enduring popularity might be due as much to his unconventional and fascinating life as to his writing. Most of our listeners are, I’m sure, familiar with its central…

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Alan Jacobs’s recent essay “The Watchmen.” Michael Eric Dyson’s “Cornel West’s Rise and Fall” Marilynne Robinson’s “Fear” Robinson’s interview with…

Series Index Criique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (Hackett edition) At this point it might take us longer to write these blog posts than it took Kant to write…

Download or Stream this Episode Ontic Ethics at Lexington Books What does it mean to exist as a human being?  Are some people more human than others by virtue of their…

Download or Stream this Episode It’s easy enough to say when your friends are doing good things and your enemies bad, but moral philosophy takes on the tasks of saying…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Simone Weil’s essay “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of…

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in the last of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.

Plato and the Elements of Dialogue by John H. Fritz 186 pp. Lexington Books. $85.00 Every time any writer does philosophy, John H. Fritz reminds us, we’re dealing with an…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in the first of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s 1999 book For Common Things.