PEL Special: Combat & Classics on Rousseau's "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences"
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A new podcast for the PEL Podcast Network! Meet Jeff, Lise, and Brian, who are joined by Wes and Dylan to discuss Rousseau's claim that the arts and sciences lead to "moral corruption." Get more C&C on the PEL site or at combatandclassics.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey partially examined lifeless nurse, this is Mark Linson-Mire and we've got another |
| 0:10.0 | special presentation for you. |
| 0:11.9 | You've expanded the partially examined life podcast network, include one more entry |
| 0:17.0 | who are hopefully already familiar with our five-fick Truth Infiction podcast, a |
| 0:21.5 | great of our not-school program and my nakedly examined music, songwriter interviews, |
| 0:27.0 | will allow me to introduce you to combat and classics. |
| 0:29.8 | Now you probably know that we have a loose affiliation with St. John's College in that |
| 0:34.4 | West went there for undergrad and Dylan taught there for quite a while and you may also |
| 0:39.0 | remember from many of our episodes in 2016 we had Brian Wilson, another St. John's |
| 0:44.4 | grad, doing announcements for our not-school program. |
| 0:47.4 | While Brian came to us already running this combat and classic series that was sponsored |
| 0:51.7 | by St. John's, which was very similar to what we do in not-school and that he would |
| 0:55.2 | administer free online seminars, talking about classic texts and his niche was military |
| 1:01.7 | folks like himself, active duty, reserve, veteran, people who have been involved in life and |
| 1:06.4 | death decisions, which hopefully make one pretty thoughtful. |
| 1:10.5 | So for quite a while he's administered these seminars to help military folks understand |
| 1:15.0 | what a leader must be and know, techniques and examples of persuasion and fundamental |
| 1:19.4 | questions on the nature of man. |
| 1:21.5 | So this new podcast, it started in 2017, they already have 10 episodes under their belt |
| 1:27.2 | before this one that have only recently been released onto iTunes and such. |
| 1:31.7 | This has that same bent that area of concern but of course it is not really strictly focused |
| 1:36.0 | on military issues and the discussions are fully enjoyable whether you have anything to |
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