🔒 The Youth: Their Corruption and its Correction

Subscriber-only episode This is the inaugural discussion of my series on fathers and sons reading Great books together. Here I discuss the reasoning behind the series, encompassing everything from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, to Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Xenophon, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Melville, Bloom's Closing of the American Mind and, of course and definitively, the Bible. At issue is an assessment of we ourselves as educators of the youth and the meaning...

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These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy.  There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.