65: Satire

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Satire: can it ever be virtuous? We submit that it can.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody, and welcome to classical stuff you should know.
0:10.4	We are a podcast about classical literature, art, philosophy, architecture, still to come.
0:17.9	And we are just trying to bring everybody into the classical world, which I promise
0:22.5	you is far more accessible than you think it is. Right? Plato is easier to read than you think.
0:27.6	Plato is easier to read than people writing about Plato. Yes. Yeah. Aristotle is as hard to read
0:33.4	as you think he is, but it's very good. And worth it. Why all the hate? Aristotle is incredibly accessible.
0:38.7	Do you think so?
0:39.2	Oh, for sure.
0:39.8	Oh.
0:40.2	I think he's really hard to read.
0:42.0	You're smarter than me.
0:43.5	No, no.
0:43.9	He's just slow down.
0:46.8	Yeah.
0:47.6	Don't want to.
0:48.9	Okay.
0:49.6	Anyway.
0:50.1	I've been reading Purgatorio.
0:51.3	Have you started that one yet, Graham? Aren't you going to teach that?
0:55.0	If we get to it. But yeah, what about it? Just in the vein of, like, accessible things that I thought would be really hard. It's almost, the three of us. I am A.J. Hanenberg. I teach ninth and twelfth grade
1:13.0	English here at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas. I am joined by my two colleagues, Graham Donaldson.
1:18.0	Hoi, hoi. And Thomas Magby. Hello. And we are in charge around here. And that's what we do.
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