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Athenian Stranger✓
@Athens_Stranger
I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner
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- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: Knowledge of what Thucydides teaches is so important that if you are not studying him (or have not) then you cannot say you are seriously engaged in learning “the great books” or offering “a classical curriculum” Nor can you even say you know what “Modernity” is01409.9K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: What is “Modernity”? — its various interpretations and philosophical premises? And what’s the relation between “Modernity” and that other neologism “Postmodernity”? I discuss all of that and much more014011.3K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: I go through Socrates’s description of the cave in the opening of book 7 to Plato’s Republic Almost two hours on two pages, and emphasizing some Greek words used by Socrates so definitive of the cave You will learn more here than from entire series by others0905.9K
- Your education is greatly insufficient without a thorough and deadly serious knowledge of Thucydides. In Thucydides you find everything and far more than what’s even knowable in times of peace, leisure, and comfortability221624K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: Did you know Achilles sings songs? — and Homer allows Odysseus to sing his own song for 4 books, inviting us to compare them to what Homer says through the Muse? What does all that mean coming immediately after the songs of Demodocus? I discuss all that in great detail01104.1K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: This is the first in a series on Plato’s Phaedo. I discuss the enormous tension between Odysseus and the gods as *the* lens through which to understand the true theme of the dialogue which Plato’s Socrates appropriates in it from Homer’s Odyssey01006.7K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: I discuss the enormous depths of philosophical thought that tumble out of Hobbes’s introductory remarks on history to the readers of his translation of Thucydides The “ancients” and “moderns” in philosophy are far more interesting than you’ve been told Link below011012.4K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: Xenophon’s Socrates tells Xenophon that praying to the divine about things which the divine has already placed within our capacities to properly judge and justly correct on our own is insulting and flatly impious towards the divine. Such wisdom has been *wasted* on us.046026.9K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: I’ve made this free because the sequel to it is so relevant The sequel is almost complete and includes numerous edits to this version along with almost 3 more hours of this comprehensive introduction to the entirety of Nietzsche’s thoughtAthenian Stranger @Athens_StrangerI provide a comprehensive intro to Nietzsche through his combination of Modern science, history, and philology into a new understanding of philosophy — all with a view to his teaching on classical education and properly education the youth towards creating a culture of greatness042085.8K
- I provide a comprehensive intro to Nietzsche through his combination of Modern science, history, and philology into a new understanding of philosophy — all with a view to his teaching on classical education and properly education the youth towards creating a culture of greatness
84425685.5K - Athenian StrangerRT @ListianThought: On my 2nd listen to @Athens_Stranger's episodes on Paganism, Christianity and Atheism. Picking up lots more on the second listen. I can't recommend this series and the rest of his back catalogue highly enough frens.010199
- Athenian StrangerRT @zarathustra_sui: One of my favorite recordings to date from @Athens_Stranger I highly recommend subscribing on Substack and supporting his work!Athenian Stranger @Athens_StrangerThis is the first in a series on Plato’s Phaedo. I discuss the enormous tension between Odysseus and the gods as *the* lens through which to understand the true theme of the dialogue which Plato’s Socrates appropriates in it from Homer’s Odyssey010186
- Here I introduce Socrates’s question in the Phaedo that supervenes the arguments of the dialogue It’s the second in my series on the Phaedo emphasizing Socrates’s Odysseus in the inseparability of poetry and philosophy for “physics”
24362.2K - A good summary of Nietzsche could be this: Read Homer, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch to know greatness b/c the academic historians, classicists and mere moralizers of today seek to make all greatness as small as their own petty souls15941.3K37.2K
- Athenian StrangerRT @Athens_Stranger: Knowledge of classical philosophy requires knowledge of Thucydides, the great alternative to Plato and Aristotle Further, and just as importantly if not more so, knowledge of Modernity and Modern philosophy requires knowledge of Thucydides0507.3K
- Athenian StrangerRT @MiloAgonistes: The Barbarian Bench Press Program is now available on @Gumroad! If you want a serious boost to your bench press, grab your copy now.030197
- Everything of Machiavelli is in both Plato and Aristotle So when you see “great books” and “classical” school accounts trashing Machiavelli but endlessly slobbering over Plato and Aristotle it tells you that they simply don’t know how to read11112136.2K
- Posty @Athens_Stranger… and if any of them bothered to read —and read deadly seriously— Thucydides, then they would know why that’s the case To expect too much of reason in politics is itself unreasonable. THAT is the teaching of the (*natural*) cave in Plato’s Republic00341K
- An intro to the depths of Plato —which will unfold into the depths of Aristotle— by way of the depths in Homer’s Odyssey You won’t find these things anywhere else. This first part of the discussion is over an hour and a halfAthenian Stranger @Athens_StrangerThis is the first in a series on Plato’s Phaedo. I discuss the enormous tension between Odysseus and the gods as *the* lens through which to understand the true theme of the dialogue which Plato’s Socrates appropriates in it from Homer’s Odyssey00562.6K
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