188. Saving The Humanities | Stephen Blackwood

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

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Dr. Stephen Blackwood: Philosopher, cultural critic and founder of Ralston College. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Stephen Blackwood discuss his work as founder of the Inner City Youth Program and his experience with developing Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. We get into a deep discussion about the inner workings of philosophical aspects about social constructs, University and the humanities, the spiritual ‘culture crisis’ going on today, and more. Dr. Stephen Blackwood is the founding president of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Blackwood specializes in the history of philosophy and dedicates a large portion of his work and studies on Boethius. He has contributed a great deal to several programs including the St. George’s YouthNet as well as an educational mentoring program for inner-city kids in Nova Scotia. Dr. Blackwood has been recognized by the floor of the US Senate due to his op-ed “ObamaCare and My Mother's Cancer Medicine” that reached the Wall Street Journal. Check out Dr. Stephen Blackwood’s website: https://www.stephenjblackwood.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast season four episode 42 recorded on May 18th 2021.
0:06.2	I'm Michaela Peterson. Quick update. My dad is feeling better. Not fully good, but better.
0:12.0	Thank goodness. On this episode, my dad discussed philosophy from a historical perspective with his
0:17.7	guest, Dr. Stephen Blackwood. Dr. Blackwood is the founding president of Ralston College in
0:23.1	Savannah, Georgia, an author of the constellation of Boethius as poetic liturgy. With a main focus
0:30.6	in the history of philosophy, Dr. Blackwood also founded the inner city youth program in Nova Scotia.
0:36.3	He hosted and moderated further soul feeding conversations with my dad, Sir Roger Scrutin,
0:41.4	and Slavoj Giac in the past couple of years. I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:04.3	Hello everyone. I'm pleased to have with me today, Dr. Stephen Blackwood,
1:08.5	who is the founding president of Ralston College, a newly founded university in Savannah,
1:14.3	Georgia. Dr. Blackwood was one of the founders of St. George's youth net, an educational mentoring
1:21.2	program for inner city youth in the North End District of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was subsequently
1:27.2	a teaching fellow in the foundation year program at the University of King's College, which is
1:31.9	one of Canada's finest undergraduate institutions. Blackwood hosted and moderated a conversation
1:38.0	between Sir Roger Scrutin and I at Cambridge University in November of 2018 and moderated the
1:45.4	debate, Happiness, Capitalism, Versus Marxism between Slavoj Giac and I on April 19, 2019. Dr.
1:54.1	Blackwood lectures and specializes in the history of philosophy, especially Boethius. He also hosts
2:01.4	the Ralston College podcast, which has featured guests, including Douglas Murray, the physicist Freeman
2:08.3	Dyson, Andrew Doyle, the online satirist and author and Theodore Delrampal, who wrote our culture,
2:15.1	what's left of it, among many other books. Oxford University Press published his book The Consolation
2:21.3	of Beethius as a Boethius as poetic liturgy in 2015. Welcome Dr. Blackwood, Steven, it's really
2:31.7	good to see you. Thanks for agreeing to talk to me today. Thanks for having me and Jordan, it's great
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