Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Transcendental Aesthetic and Introduction to Transcendental Logic Before I launch into my first contribution to our joint project on Kant, a personal note. I…

Series Index Introductions and the Introduction Once again a conversation about what we haven’t read has turned into an ambition to read.  Those of you who listen to the Christian…

Mark Greif recently published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that considered the importance of Partisan Review in American intellectual life (http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Wrong-With-Public/189921/). What Greif identified as important about…

Old Nick they called him, and he earned himself a spot on the earliest versions of the earliest versions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum with his treatise The Prince.  History…

Philosopher and noted Family Guy interpreter Ray VanArragon joins us to discuss intellectual virtue and vice. To my mind, Ray was one of the most important contributors to our Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education project. First, he…

Download or Stream this Episode There are Christian books that try to engage philosophical learning in a strong, rigorous manner, and there are Christian books written for a general audience.…

The epistle of Jude exhorts the faithful to contend for a faith that’s handed down, yet delivered once and for all.  In our own moment, tensions arise between Scripture’s testimony…

Series Index Without a doubt rules do something when we undertake disciplined thought.  But when we try to articulate universal claims about rules, they fall flat.  Wittgenstein asks us to…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour talk about banned books and the history of censorship.

In episode 4, it is a period of civil war.  Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base… wait, wrong franchise! Ahem, in episode 4, Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with…

Danny Anderson leads a conversation with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Kenneth Burke’s essay “Terministic Screens.”

Series Index Wittgenstein, in this session’s readings concerns himself with relationships between our general terms and the ranges of realities to which they relate.  Once again in his sights seem…

Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 play Huis Clos, generally translated into English as No Exit.

Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an…

Series Index At this point I’m not posting things before the meetings or even the day of the meetings but catching up from missed meetings.  Mea culpa.  For those just…