328 - Stephen Blackwood - The Book that the West Needs
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Stephen James Blackwood is a Canadian-American professor, academic, and social commentator. Blackwood is the founder and president of Ralston College, a liberal arts college awaiting accreditation in Savannah, Georgia. We met on the Daily Wire+ Exodus panel where he had a lot of amazing insights and we have become friends since.
In this discussion, we talk about Stephen’s wonderful book, The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy, an exploration of The Consolation of Philosophy, a book by Boethius. We discuss Boethius’ role and contribution to the Medieval Western world and the amazing treasury of wisdom and consolation he can still offer us today. His legacy beautifully bridges and synthesizes the ancient pagan world, and a secular space, with the foundations and hope of a Christian vision.
The 2024 enrollments for Ralston College are not open: https://www.ralston.ac/humanities-ma
The Exodus series, free on Jordan Peterson’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQAppIsV0MmKYhGeFGJsy-dS&si=77eG5hbodzWm0HW3
Stephen Blackwood: https://www.ralston.ac/people/stephen-blackwood
Stephen’s book, The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy: https://www.amazon.com/Consolation-Boethius-Liturgy-Christian-Studies/dp/0198718314
Ralston College is more than a university and an online portal. It is a movement dedicated to seeking the truth without censorship or shame. It is a call to build a free and flourishing culture for one and all. Read more about it: https://www.ralston.ac/
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| 0:00.0 | It is one of the most copied works of literature for effectively a thousand years. |
| 0:05.0 | So it's a book that essentially, it's put it this way, that anyone who could read for the |
| 0:10.1 | better part of a thousand years in the West was reading Boethius. |
| 0:14.3 | It's unbelievably influential. |
| 0:16.8 | And that with his other translations make their way into the Middle Ages. |
| 0:21.4 | And so the metaphor I like to use, it's like, you know, the flowers have died. |
| 0:26.1 | We heard I and Hershey Ali recently say, the West is a cut flower. |
| 0:30.0 | It's like the flowers have died, but these books are seeds. |
| 0:33.8 | These books are seeds of the ideas. |
| 0:36.3 | And it's as if he cast them forward into the future, |
| 0:38.8 | so that hundreds of years after his death, those seeds would grow again into, you might |
| 0:45.4 | say the beautiful garden of Western medieval culture. This is Jonathan Peugeot. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the symbolic world. So everyone, it is a pleasure to finally have Stephen Blackwood on my channel. |
| 1:19.7 | As you know, Stephen is the president and founder of Ralston College. |
| 1:24.9 | He was also one of my, it was my neighbor at the Exodus Seminar, |
| 1:29.5 | you know, sitting next to me, |
| 1:30.8 | bringing us back to this story, |
| 1:32.8 | you know, expressing his wisdom with so much tact. |
| 1:37.5 | You know, he's become a friend |
| 1:38.7 | and someone that I respect very much. |
| 1:41.4 | And so I'm happy to have him on. |
| 1:42.8 | And we're going to talk about Boetheus. |
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