The Weekly Eudemon
Summary: Widely-published author, speaker, and lawyer, Eric Scheske, offers weekly commentary on a host of matters, ranging from current events to philosophy to religion.
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The Years 622-962 LIghtning Segments Peter Singer One Possible Reason We're So Divided
Almost this entire episode talks about the years 313 AD to 622 AD. It covers Emperor Constantine's Edict of Milan that proclaimed religious toleration, thereby ending Christian persecution, the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the west, and the reign of Justinian in the 500s. This episode concludes with a lengthy Lightning Segments.
Coronavirus Ramblings. Do you like the social distancing? Then maybe you're an introvert. What you can (can't) do to protect yourself. The years 27 BC to 313 AD. Octavius becomes emperor. Stoicism. The Roman Peace begins. . . Christianity begins.
Socrates, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Cato, 2020 Primaries and Disruption of Binary Culture
Episode 65: Autobiographical Rumblings
Why does Gnosticism even matter? Because it provides a crucial key to understanding modern and postmodern political discourse. Gnosticism, in today's world, laces the Left, just as Christianity laces the Right. Lightning Segments: Murder of Playboy model, GMO v. Non-GMO. 586-400 BC: The Babylonian Captivity, the start of the Roman Republic, Cyrus the Great, the Athenian Golden Age.
What is the primary ingredient of Gnosticism? Plato: Inability to deal with the Metaxy. Lightning Segments. The year 1300 BC to 586 BC: Moses to the Babylonian Captivity. What was happening in Greece during this time?
1300 BC to 1492: Moses to Columbus. These ten years are designed to give you a rough grasp of western civilization from the beginning of recorded history to the dawn of the modern world. 1300 BC, 589 BC, 399 BC, 27 BC, 313 AD, 622, 1000, 1274, 1453, 1492. Lightning Segments: Coronavirus and statistics, charity scam, John Simon. John Simon and Yoko Ono.
What happens when society undergoes huge psychological shifts? When Europe discovered in 1492 that the world contained another entire continent, the seeds of the Reformation were planted. When Alexander the Great conquered Asia, the seeds of Christianity and its evil twin, Gnosticism, were planted. LIghtning Segments.Secondhand things. The virtue of prudence: choosing among competing goods. How to behave.
Episode 60: Thomas Sowell, Condorcet, Postmodernism, Francis de Sales
Episode 59: Macarius the Great, Silence, Russia, Hollywood
Episode 58: Battle in the Desert, Anthony the Great, Limits to Reason/Logic
Writing and control in ancient Babylon. It's at work today. Wokeness. It justifies violence against the non-woke.
Episode 56: Libertarianism and Porn
Episode 55: Zeno and Zen, Aquinas, Realism
