Eric Scheske

Show Notes from the Current Episode [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/2/8/nbjs6v0ekb04k7c56hhyws0yxqbv7g] Cultivating Historical Perspective: Ten Years to Remember to Form a Framework I mentioned last week that I ought to do a podcast segment on 20 or 30 dates you should know in order to get

BYCU Albert Jay Nock once remarked that it's ridiculous to try to prohibit/circumscribe something like alcohol, which in nature runs as freely as water. His point was illustrated this week in India: "Residents of an apartment building in southern India were left in shock after a

Miscellaneous Rambling Blasted snow! I was supposed to go to Hillsdale College to watch Meg introduce a speech by Jacob Howland [https://www.jacobhowland.com/]. Alas, the second winter storm of 2020 sidelined me. Curses, curses, and more curses. As of this writing, I don't know how her

The choice (if it can even be called a choice, since it's not intentional) that most people make to delve into all the banality is ridiculous, but it has become the crux of contemporary living: The harshness of reality articulated by Camus, smoothed over by the banalities that

Episode 61: Psychological Disruptions and the Reformation and Alexander the Great Show notes here [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/2/2/episode-61-psychological-disruptions-and-the-reformation-and-alexander-the-great] . First Segment: The Rise of Gnosticism Did you know all reformers were born after the year 1480? I'm talking about the Reformation of 1517, when

Brews You Can Use My apologies for the lack of posts this week. Marie and I are moving into my parents' house. We have a lot to do in order to get it ready. She's been carrying the bulk of the load, but this week, I had

SHOW NOTES First Segment I'm working my way through Lawrence Cahoone's 700-page anthology of postmodernism. He starts the book out by excerpting key passages from writers who helped frame the modern mind, whose main gist, as I read Cahoone is: Modernity was obsessed with reasoning. Rationality.