PhD @Cambridge_Uni | Fellow @AmAcademyRome @NTOntologies | President, Fellow @MethexisATX Author 'Restoring Reason' | Editor 'New Trinitarian Ontologies'
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Joined March 2016
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Watch my short introduction to Andy Blunden's new book 'The Capital / Logic Debate' for the @MethexisATX Forbidden Books club.
Watch my short introduction to Andy Blunden's new book 'The Capital / Logic Debate' for the @MethexisATX Forbidden Books club.
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NEW PODCAST!📚🎙️
How Plato Helped Shape Christianity
Today on Ascend: The Great Books Podcast, Deacon Harrison Garlick and Mr. Thomas Lackey sit down with Dr. Louis Markos (@loumarkos) of From Plato to Christ—for a lively, wide-ranging conversation on how Platonic thought prepared the world for the Gospel.
From the fullness of time and the meeting of Athens and Jerusalem to C.S. Lewis, classical education, the myths of the Republic, and why even modern Christians still need Plato, this is a rich exploration of the intellectual roots of the faith and the enduring power of the Great Books.
Dr. Markos is a whirlwind on a mission.
Join us.
And THANK YOU again to the Classic Learning Test (@CLT_Exam) for sponsoring this episode.
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People in Constantinople celebrating after hearing of Alexios I Komnenos' victory over Bohemond at Larissa in 1083, turning point of the Roman-Norman War.
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Imagine being heavily outnumbered and fearing the flower of French chivalry will stomp you into the mud, then your King gives this sly-winking, self-regarding little monologue. You'd throw down your arms and surrender at once rather than die with such a ponce.
Probably my favourite version. It's much less bombastic than Olivier's or Branagh's.
#StCrispinsDay
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Stop. Branagh’s version is the way this speech was meant to be delivered. Not even debatable.
Probably my favourite version. It's much less bombastic than Olivier's or Branagh's.
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Listen to my introduction to a meta-critique of Nominalism in Walter Burley's 'On the Purity of the Art of Logic' for the @MethexisATX Forbidden Books club.
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Go ghosts and fairies exist? *Only* ghosts and fairies exist. Everything we see is a haunted by the virtuality of the past. Everything we think involves the constant intrusion of creatures of the world of the imagination.
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I'm very very sad tonight. I just learned that Stephen Biesty passed away in 2024 at 63... He is one of my favorite artist. Rest in peace.
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🚨 NASA has successfully captured the sound of deep space — and it’s absolutely mind-blowing 🤯
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After many false starts and delays, my book The Independent Scholar has now been typeset and is being emailed to all who preordered.
Just about everyone today assumes that to produce a lasting body of work, one must pass through a "credible" institution and secure a certain kind of job, patron, publisher, or grant.
But the historical record shows otherwise.
Twas much harder than I anticipated, and I'm all too aware of its remaining imperfections, but overall I'm pleased with the result.
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ROME (2005) was cut short by its enormous production costs, not a lack of ambition. What remains is some of the rawest historical television ever made, filled with political betrayal, brutal violence and a refreshingly unromantic portrait of ancient Rome.
