Spencer Klavan breaks down the layers of Hell as depicted in Dante’s Inferno.
Spencer Klavan talks to Dante expert Catherine Illingworth about the concept of justice as an object of our love.
This passage from Dante’s Divine Comedy will definitely make you cry.
It's time for a new chapter. Spencer Klavan celebrates Christmas with a little-known Dickens novel, then closes out the show with some reflections on the future and hope in the midst of it all. With gratitude, excitement, and a little melancholy, we look back on the life of the show and forward at what's to come.
For the penultimate episode of the show, Spencer Klavan is joined by friend and Dante expert Catherine Illingworth to approach the Commedia's beatific vision. Tying together threads from the whole series, and the whole podcast, Spencer and Catherine discuss the roles of flesh and spirit in love as the pilgrim makes his final approach to God in paradise.
In this middle portion of his series on Dante, Spencer Klavan outlines the lay of the divine "land" in Dante's Commedia. Traveling from the lust of the damned up to the longings of the saved, Dante the pilgrim meets Beatrice the redeemed soul, seeking a way to purify and channel his fleshly desires.
In this final series of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan charts a map of Dante's career and the structure of his greatest work, the Commedia. Walking through the politics, metaphysics, and artistic background of the poem, Spencer approaches the beginning of Dante's journey to discover the true nature of love.
Almost done Abolition of Man by CS Lewis, amazing how prophetic it seems. If I hadn't known better, I would've believed it was a commentary on present society.
A "quickie" partial review of "How To Save The West": I've only just finished Part One (of five), but this book surpasses expectations. It's like a delightful condensation of all that we learned throughout the entire run of Young Heretics. All that philosophy, but boiled down and simplified into an easy-to-digest, easy-to-swallow power-pill vitamin of a philosophy course. Not only is it tasty, but it's good for you! It's wonderful.
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