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🛂 Passport to... Pascal's Pensées
In which Blaise Pascal, the brilliant 17th century polymath, grapples with faith, reason, and losing oneself in the cosmos.
Jul 9
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🛂 Passport to... Pascal's Pensées
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Study Guide for Pascal's Pensées
Based on Mortimer Adler's approach to analytical reading.
Jul 9
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June 2025
Cædmon's Hymn and the Birth of English Sacred Poetry
Plus: the need to recover a Christian critical tradition.
Jun 20
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Cædmon's Hymn and the Birth of English Sacred Poetry
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🛂Passport to Milton's "Areopagitica"
Was John Milton a defender of free speech or Oliver Cromwell's censor?
Jun 10
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🛂Passport to Milton's "Areopagitica"
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Outline of Milton's Areopagitica
This outline accompanies my essay of the same work and was produced with the assistance of my “Ask Adler” GPT.
Jun 9
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May 2025
🛂Passport To...Shakespeare's Macbeth
"Blood will have blood": The tragedy of ambition and tyranny.
May 13
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🛂Passport To...Shakespeare's Macbeth
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🧳Welcome, Fellow Pilgrim
Begin your literary odyssey with Dante here.
May 7
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☯ Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of Reality
Symbolism Masterclass #2: How Symbolism manifests at every level of reality.
May 5
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☯ Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of Reality
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April 2025
How Meaning Structures the World
Jonathan Pageau's Symbolism Masterclass - Lecture 1
Apr 28
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How Meaning Structures the World
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"The Occidental Tourist" Turns Three!
A thank you to readers and thoughts on re-enchantment.
Apr 23
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"The Occidental Tourist" Turns Three!
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Odysseus and Dante in the Underworld: The Poetics of Descent
Literary and theological dimensions of the hero's journey to the underworld.
Apr 17
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Odysseus and Dante in the Underworld: The Poetics of Descent
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The Problem with Nominalism
Hobbes, Harrington, and the Revolt Against Human Nature
Apr 11
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