Andrew Klavan: The Truth and Beauty
Socrates in the City
Socrates in the City
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
A conversation between esteemed author Andrew Klavan and Socrates in the City host Eric Metaxas regarding Mr. Klavan’s recent book, The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus.
This event took place at the Union League Club in New York City in September 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:11.0 | This is really, thank you so much. |
| 0:15.0 | It's just so wonderful to see so many of you here |
| 0:20.0 | for what I know is going to be like a B-minus evening. |
| 0:23.1 | I just know in advance. |
| 0:25.0 | I know in advance. |
| 0:25.9 | Once you get to know Andrew, it's not that big of a deal. |
| 0:27.9 | But on the page, he's impressive, but, you know. |
| 0:32.5 | I am honestly so thrilled to see so many of you here |
| 0:35.8 | and so thrilled to be rebooting this thing that we call |
| 0:38.8 | Socrates in the city. Some of you were here in May. How many of you were here in May when we had Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke? Yeah. Yeah, that was a joke. He was never here. Why did you raise your hands? |
| 0:55.1 | No, we, Socrates and cities, hard for me to explain. |
| 0:59.2 | So I always have to try to explain it a little bit to say that Socrates famously said, |
| 1:05.0 | the unexamined life is not worth living. |
| 1:08.8 | And so about 20-something years ago, some friends of mine and I got the idea that, you know, |
| 1:13.2 | New Yorkers lead particularly unexamined lives. |
| 1:17.6 | And I'm talking about you. |
| 1:19.1 | Yes. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm talking about you. |
| 1:21.1 | You're shallow people. |
| 1:23.0 | And we need to learn you some stuff. |
| 1:25.7 | So I said, wouldn't it be great if we could |
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