Poets & Philosophers

Leisure the Basis of Culture (1948) is a classic praising the liberal arts. Josef Pieper argues that to build a meaningful life, we must be willing to practice leisure. Instead of always working on maximizing our time to be the most productive, Pieper says we must work to live. In our podcast we discuss his 70 page book.

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Why do so many philosophers and poets call for a slower life? Why would Kierkegaard prescribe silence for modern ills (in the late 1800’s !)? Listen to this podcast to slow down and not miss out on what silence can teach us. 

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Recommended Works by Kierkegaard

How should we understand God? How should we begin to approach understanding God? Is the Bible literal when it describes God? This episode we sit down with our friend Shane Scott, and preacher and a Ph.D. student. He has a wonderful way of explaining things and what better thing to learn about than the nature of God.

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This episode is about how we study and the habits we have to study. If you're someone whole likes to talk about productivity and habits, this is your type of episode.

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What is a soul? Can we name its parts? What does a soul have to do with a city? This episode covers Plato’s Tripartite Soul. A scintillating idea that once you understand it, you’ll see it everywhere. And we do mean everywhere. Listen up, because Plato is handing out red pills.

In this episode we discus James Emery White’s book A Mind for God. Dr. White has many insights on what it means to think Christianity and how to engage the culture by going back to the past.

Creating a reading habit of difficult books is hard. We know there is a payoff after and even during reading those difficult books, but getting started is difficult. On the podcast, Abe and Sam discuss their own journey to reading difficult books and how they continue to read them.