Ep. 126: In This House, We Believe

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

What is a citizen, and who gets to be one? With immigration all over the news, Spencer Klavan takes a Young Heretics look at the nature of citizenship, starting with Aristotle's politics. From 3rd-gen Athenian philosophy to Martha's Vineyard, all in 60 minutes!

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0:00.0	In this house, we believe that he who has the power to take part in the deliberative or judicial
0:06.6	administration of any state is a citizen of that state. And speaking generally, a state is a
0:13.5	body of citizens suffice for the purposes of life.
0:20.4	We're back to Aristotle, and when we do Greek subjects, I feel especially urgent about telling
0:25.3	you about ancient language institute. These stuff you can hear when I'm talking about these
0:30.2	texts that in order to get a rich understanding of them, I'm having to refer to these ancient
0:35.8	concepts that come packaged in ancient words, right? These authors did not write in English,
0:40.7	and that matters. And encountering them in their original languages is one of the most profound
0:44.7	experiences of the Western canon that you can have. It changed my life when I first learned
0:50.0	Latin and ever since then. I have never stopped studying these languages. The riches that they
0:54.9	offer you really cannot be beat and cannot be exhausted. Ancient language institute is the place
1:00.8	to go if you're interested in studying these at any level. You don't have to be a PhD student,
1:04.8	you don't have to be all that good at languages, right? You can start wherever you are, and they
1:08.9	will work with you to teach Latin, Greek, and biblical Hebrew. All three of these, whichever one
1:14.3	you're most interested in, you can go to ancientlanguage.com slash heretics. That's ancientlanguage.com,
1:19.4	slash heretics. And you'll get a 10% discount on tuition with the promo code heretics.
1:24.6	They do not make you jump through a bunch of grammatical hoops before you start reading the Bible,
1:28.7	the great Athenian philosophers, the golden age of poetry, whatever it is, you will be getting
1:33.2	into it with them quicker than you think at ancientlanguage.com slash heretics. Use the promo code
1:38.1	heretics for 10% off. All right, that's just a little classical philosophy humor for all you
1:45.5	young heretics out there. Obviously, that is not what the in this house we believe signs typically
1:51.9	say. They typically say things like love is love. Hate has no home here. What snow person is illegal,
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