16: Leisure

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bees walks us through Josef Pieper's book, "Leisure the Basis of Culture." A.J. takes issue with those uppity philosophers.

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know.
0:11.6	My name is A.J. Hennonberg, and I'm joined by my colleagues.
0:15.1	Graham Donaldson.
0:16.3	And Thomas Magby.
0:17.2	And we all work at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas.
0:20.3	It's a classical school, and we're here to talk about classical stuff. And we all work at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas. It's a classical school, and we're here
0:22.1	to talk about classical stuff. And today, it's like... Yeah, so yesterday, we had a snow day in Texas,
0:30.5	which is hilarious because a Texas snow day is like 50 degrees. And... It was a beautiful day. It was a
0:36.3	beautiful day yesterday. It was sunny and balmy by noon.
0:39.6	But when the public, when the public schools cancel or whatever they, decisions they make,
0:45.2	we just follow suit.
0:46.6	And so they canceled school because some parts of like San Antonio and more southern,
0:51.6	like Buda got hit pretty, I mean not.
0:53.8	Well, they shut down parts of MoPEC.
0:55.5	It was like an inch and a half, so hit hard means.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.2	But for Texas, anyway, but this means that we had an entire day where we didn't have to do work,
1:03.1	we could do leisure.
1:05.9	And so, I know.
1:07.5	And so we had a leisure today?
1:08.9	I think we should talk about leisure today.
1:10.5	Thomas, can you tell us about leisure?
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