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Sam wrote a paper on Kierkegaard... of course he did.

We discuss how the therapist Carl Rogers misreads Kierkegaard's phrase "becoming who you are." Rogers strips out the theological context of Kierkegaard's phrase to use it for his own ends.

PDF of The Great Conversation



We're talking about the Great Books of the Western World. It's a 50+ volume set created by Mortimer Adler and many other academics. In particular we're talking about the first volume, titled "The Great Conversation"

It was written by Robert Hutchins, the President of the University of Chicago.

Dr. Hamilton is a professor in the Biblical Studies Department at Florida College. He has developed at habit of reading the Lord of the Rings every year.



In this episode we discuss the timelessness of Tolkien's work including how Christians can read this work.

We discuss the medieval form of education called disputation where two students will argue over a point in the lesson to understand it better.

Dr. Woods is the Headmaster at Veritas Christian Academy. He also founded the Great Books program at Faulkner University. We interview him about his book Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education



Mortimer Adler was the "every-man's philosopher" as well as an educational reformer. In Dr. Woods' book he brings us to Mortimer Adler and the goals he sought to reform education to be focused around the Great Books.



Books Mentioned

Adler, Reforming Education: Opening of the American Mind

          The Difference of Man and the Difference if Makes

          The Paideia Program

          The Paideia Proposal

Comeius, The Great Didactic

Veith, Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping American

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Collections

The Great Books of the Western World

Gateway to the Great Books

Great Ideas Program

The book on Amazon.



Beowulf is a wonderful ancient story of a larger-than-life man named Beowulf. In the podcast we discuss our thoughts after reading the book and how Beowulf is a timeless story.



Features of this Episode


We discuss Tolkien's seminal lecture, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
Ted Sherman's Lecture on Tolkien's Lecture
The Writer and Audience of Beowulf
The need for Stories