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The Original New Humanist, featuring Dr. Eric Adler and Katherine Bradshaw | Episode XVII
New Humanists
02/15/22 • 77 min
Long before the New Humanists podcast was born, Irving Babbitt helped found the movement now known as New Humanism. University of Maryland Professor of Classics Dr. Eric Adler, along with his former student (and current ALI Fellow) Katherine Bradshaw, join the podcast to discuss the original New Humanist and what we might stand to gain from him in our debates about education, the humanities, and the canon.
Irving Babbitt’s “What Is Humanism?”: http://www.nhinet.org/lac1.htm
Irving Babbitt’s “What I Believe: Rousseau and Religion” from Spanish Character and Other Essays: https://amzn.to/34ZP9RH
Dr. Eric Adler’s The Battle of the Classics: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780197518786
Dr. Eric Adler’s Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond: https://amzn.to/36a7V9H
Dr. Eric Adler’s Valorizing the Barbarians: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780292744035
C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652944
Alan Jacobs’ The Year of Our Lord 1943: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780190864651
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s First Discourse: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312694401
George MacDonald’s The Princess and Curdie: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781952410475
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060935467
Robert E. Proctor’s Defining the Humanities: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780253212191
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Milton Against the Trivium | Episode XXXIX
New Humanists
01/15/23 • 59 min
John Milton's clarion call to educators to "repair the ruins of our first parents" has inspired countless teachers and parents in the classical education movement and beyond. But is Milton really the classical education ally he appears to be? In "On Education" he pays lip service to grammar, logic, and rhetoric - the three components of the Trivium - but he also disparages scholasticism, ignores metaphysics, and deplores medieval education. Join Jonathan and Ryan as they discuss Milton's education manifesto.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
John Milton's Of Education: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/of_education/text.shtml
Johann Heinrich Alsted's Loci Communes: https://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/vd17/content/titleinfo/5175418
Jan Comenius' Orbis Pictus: https://amzn.to/3vQb08A
Hans H. Ørberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: https://amzn.to/3hoLz7V
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03/15/23 • 57 min
The duel between the Horatii brothers and the Curiatii brothers seemed to settle the Roman-Alban dispute and give Rome authority over Alba. But wily Mettius Fufetius has a trick or two up his sleeve. Meanwhile, the one surviving Horatius brother strikes down his sister in cold blood, an incident Jacques-Louis David drew but never ended up painting. The civilized three-on-three duel now threatens to give way to an all-out war of extermination between Rome and Alba. This is the sixth episode of "No Republic Was Ever Greater," a podcast series examining the rise of the Roman Empire through the work of Livy and Machiavelli.
Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj
Fustel de Coulanges's La Cité Antique (French): https://amzn.to/3yzATuZ
Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (English): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780648690542
Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii
Nicolas Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women#/media/File:L'Enl%C3%A8vement_des_Sabines_%E2%80%93_Nicolas_Poussin_%E2%80%93_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre,_INV_7290_%E2%80%93_Q3110586.jpg
Arlette Clavet's Unpublished Studies for 'The Oath of the Horatii': https://www.jstor.org/stable/1552932
Corneille's Horace: https://amzn.to/41zF1Iy
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The Danger of Plato | Episode XLV
New Humanists
04/15/23 • 49 min
Does Plato, and philosophy more generally, belong in schools? In a lecture, professor and Davenant Institute VP Colin Redemer suggests that Plato is too dangerous to be allowed into classical schools. Jonathan and Ryan take a look at this lecture and at the response it received, focusing on esoteric writing, reason versus revelation, and the Platonic-Christian-American synthesis.
The Davenant Institute's Reforming Classical Education: https://davenantinstitute.org/reforming-classical-education
Austin Hoffman's Awkward Family Dinner: A Review of Reforming Classical Education: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/02/awkward-family-dinner-a-review-of-reforming-classical-education/
Colin Redemer's Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever Shareable Feast: https://adfontesjournal.com/web-exclusives/revisiting-platonic-education-the-ever-sharable-feast/
Leo Strauss's Persecution and the Art of Writing: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780226777115
Plato's Theages: https://amzn.to/3UE4DRl
T.S. Eliot's Second Thoughts About Humanism: https://muse.jhu.edu/document/408
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08/15/22 • 49 min
Milton and Shakespeare? Or Homer and Virgil? Why should our students study Greeks and Romans when we have English-language poets, philosophers, and historians worthy to be placed on the same level as the ancients? Maybe because the “ancients” aren’t really so ancient after all...
So argues Thomas Arnold in his defense of the classical curriculum he instituted at Rugby School. Jonathan and Ryan use Arnold’s “Use of the Classics” essay, his defense of classical education, to distinguish between two things that are nowadays often conflated: a “classical” curriculum and a “Great Books” curriculum.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199555017
Helen Andrews’s Boomers: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780593086759
Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays: https://amzn.to/3vEZNYQ
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09/01/23 • 59 min
"Simple necessity has forced men, even among the heathen, to maintain pedagogues and schoomasters if their nation was to be brought to a high standard." In his address "To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany," Martin Luther exhorts Germany's civic leaders to establish public schools for the education of all German children. Foremost among his priorities in his proposed educational program is instruction in ancient languages, something that, according to Luther, Satan wants to suppress. We dive into German education, ancient language instruction, and the eternal debate over public schools versus homeschooling.
Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Plutarch's Parallel Lives (inc. Numa and Lycurgus): https://amzn.to/3YbAPxk
Andrew Cuff's Marcus Aurelius, Uncensored: https://beckandstone.com/created/marcus-aurelius-uncensored
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Compassion Versus Classical Antiquity | Episode LVII
New Humanists
12/01/23 • 70 min
In The Greek State, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that the Greek polis existed in order to hold the many in slavery so that the Olympian few could give birth to the beautiful Helen known as Greek culture, and that the Greek state had to be periodically renewed by war so that it could continue to create geniuses. This, he says, is the esoteric meaning behind Plato's Republic. Jonathan and Ryan take a look at this "preface to an unwritten book" and examine the ethical, metaphysical, and historical implications of Nietzsche's argument.
Friedrich Nietzsche's The Greek State: https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Nietzsche-Greek-State-text.pdf
Jacob Burkhardt's The Greeks and Greek Civilization: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780312244477
C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652920
T.S. Eliot's Vergil and the Christian World: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27538181
Jacob Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: https://amzn.to/49RKXk1
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Pope Humanist | Episode LX
New Humanists
01/15/24 • 46 min
Aeneas Silvius was an accomplished Renaissance humanist, author of erotic literature, and influential aide to emperors and popes (and an antipope). Then, he became a pope himself. As Pope Pius II, he then added memoirist, urban planner, and antiquarian to his list of accomplishments. He contributed to the popular Renaissance "mirror of princes" genre in a letter to a young boy-king in Central Europe, where he makes the case for reading pagan poetry as a Christian.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
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06/01/22 • 71 min
Was Socrates a Christian? Did Plato meet Jeremiah? Are pagan myths based on garbled versions of the Hebrew prophets? Welcome to Justin Martyr’s First Apology, a plea to the Roman Emperor to stop killing Christians, a philosophical defense of Christianity, and a master class in biblical exegesis. ALI Latin & Greek Fellow Calvin Goligher returns to New Humanists to discuss the poetry, philosophy, and revelation in Justin Martyr with Jonathan and Ryan.
Justin Martyr’s First Apology (free in English): https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm
Dennis Minns and Paul Parvis’s Justin, Philosopher and Martyr: Apologies (critical edition): https://amzn.to/3GJOMtp
Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0128.htm
Pliny-Trajan correspondence on Christians: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/pliny.html
Plato’s Republic: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780465094080
Yoram Hazony’s The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780521176675
Matthew W. Bates’s The Birth of the Trinity: https://amzn.to/3taSZ3U
Cicero’s De Officiis: https://amzn.to/3x9TGwT
Ambrose’s De Officiis: https://amzn.to/3Nc3j3C
Robert Louis Wilken’s The Christians as the Romans Saw Them: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780300098396
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The Barren Contemplative Life | Episode LXXVIII
New Humanists
11/15/24 • 50 min
This week, Jonathan and Ryan discuss two early medieval selections from Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition, one taken from Gregory the Great, perhaps the most significant pope in the history of Christendom, and another from Alcuin of York, adviser to Charlemagne and architect of the Carolingian Renaissance. Both Gregory and Alcuin were churchmen, statesmen, scholars, and are linked closely to the Christianization of Britain. Jonathan and Ryan discuss the relation between rational thought and proper grammar, the Great Books according to Medievals, and whether education properly belongs to the contemplative life or the active life.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780140445657
New Humanists episode with Tim Griffith on Latin Teaching: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/14692390-the-art-of-language-teaching-feat-tim-griffith-episode-lxiv
Andrew Beck interview in Align: https://www.theblaze.com/align/interview-beck-stone-co-founder-andrew-beck
New Humanists episode with John Peterson: https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/episodes/12698279-education-that-makes-aquinas-look-modern-feat-john-peterson-episode-xlvi
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How many episodes does New Humanists have?
New Humanists currently has 79 episodes available.
What topics does New Humanists cover?
The podcast is about Humanities, Classics, Society & Culture, Language Learning, Podcasts, Education, Philosophy and Latin.
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The episode title 'Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord 2021, Pt. 1 | Episode II' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on New Humanists is 62 minutes.
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Episodes of New Humanists are typically released every 15 days, 22 hours.
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The first episode of New Humanists was released on Jun 1, 2021.
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