The Classical Ideas Podcast

This episode features the Hinduism creation story. The story features Brahma, the creator god, and Sarasvati, the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, music, and art.

Script: https://genius.com/Plato-euthyphro-full-text-annotated

Episode 6 is a full cast performance of Plato's classic text, Euthyphro. The questions discussed: What is piety and what is impiety? Do the gods love something because it is holy, or is something holy because it is loved by the gods?

Socrates performed by Mackenzie Everett-Kennedy

Euthyphro performed by Greg Soden

Kurt Saxton has been a member of the Columbia Missouri community for about 15 years. Kurt has been a Baha'i for over 10 years, and has served on the Local Spiritual Assembly for roughly that same amount of time. The Baha'i Faith has no clergy; the Local Spiritual Assembly handles administrative affairs within the Baha'i community. As there is no clergy within the Faith, the views and opinions about Baha'i matters and Baha'i Writings are strictly his own, and in no way are meant to be authoritative.

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David Amponsah is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a PhD from Harvard University, a Masters from Harvard, a masters from Indiana University, and a Bachelors from the University of Ghana. He is a historian of religion who researches the intersection of religion and society in Africa, with special attention to colonialism, culture, and politics. His research is grounded in African social, cultural, political, and intellectual history, and is principally concerned with the modern period. His work has appeared in the Journal of Africana Religions, the Journal of Religion in Africa, African and Asian Studies, and more. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled "Unholy Interplay: Shrines, Priests, and British Rule in the Making of Colonial Ghana,1800–1966" in which he examine the connection between indigenous religion and colonialism.

Eric Lancaster is an instructor of Japanese at the University of Missouri and an instructor of religious studies at Columbia College. He is a member of Bunraku Bay Puppet Theatre troupe, whose film, "Kaiju Bunraku," was screened at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. This conversation talks about the importance of teaching and studying religion.

George Frissell retired in 2017 and taught high school English and religious studies in Texas and Missouri. In 1990, he founded Classical Ideas and World Religions at Hickman High School in Columbia, MO. He is the founder of the Speak Your Mind Forum series and the Columbia, MO Amnesty International chapter for the public school system.

This episode outlines the premise for the Classical Ideas Podcast.