How does truth propagate in the world? How can it stand up to the manifold errors that assail it? How can we come to distinguish truth from error in a whole philosophy, a whole way of living? In two words, personal influence. In more than  two words, this podcast episode!

Joseph's brother, Fr. Peter, was in town, and had just given a talk on this topic to Catholic students at Hillsdale College, so we dove in and discussed  the main ideas.

The sermon of Newman's that we're pulling from the most--"Personal Influence as the Means of Propagating the Faith"-- as well as essentially everything else St. John Henry Newman ever published, can be found here: https://newmanreader.org/

More information about the classical high school that Joseph is helping to start in Jackson, MI, can be found here: https://www.castgeorge.com/

Joseph took a quick look for the image of Diogenes on a world full of torches, and couldn't find it. He definitely heard it in his philosophy of science class in undergrad to underscore the issue of finding a scientific paradigm that could really go the distance, and it stuck with him since then, but he can't recall if it was in Thomas Kuhn's work on scientific paradigms, or if it was just a fun image the professor  had cooked up.  

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