St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

A Timely Untimely Education (Sarah Davis)


Listen Later

Video recording of a lecture delivered on September 19, 2025, by Santa Fe Dean Sarah Davis.


Ms. Davis offers the following description: "I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” Nietzsche opens The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life with this quote from Goethe.  It appropriately frames Nietzsche’s own meditation, which does not just walk us through different ways to relate to the past, giving us a schema for making sense of history, but invigorates and leads to a quickening within us. But how?  This lecture investigates Nietzsche's claim that the "excess of history" in modern times compromises the health and vitality of human life. It then considers The Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life itself as presenting an alternative way to relate to history. Finally, it asks how, if at all, this alternative informs a St. John's education."

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

St. John's College (Annapolis) LecturesBy Greenfield Library

  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5
  • 4.5

4.5

8 ratings


More shows like St. John's College (Annapolis) Lectures

View all
Philosophize This! by Stephen West

Philosophize This!

15,267 Listeners

The Gray Area with Sean Illing by Vox

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

10,706 Listeners

Odd Lots by Bloomberg

Odd Lots

1,994 Listeners

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

1,617 Listeners

The Thomistic Institute by The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute

812 Listeners

The Commentary Magazine Podcast by Commentary Magazine

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

5,166 Listeners

The Editors by National Review

The Editors

4,900 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,171 Listeners

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat by New York Times Opinion

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

7,295 Listeners

The Bulwark Podcast by The Bulwark

The Bulwark Podcast

12,756 Listeners

Within Reason by Alex J O'Connor

Within Reason

1,659 Listeners

Know Your Enemy by Matthew Sitman

Know Your Enemy

2,071 Listeners

The Ancients by History Hit

The Ancients

3,354 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,419 Listeners

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead by Tablet Magazine

What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

441 Listeners