The Book that the West Needs - with Stephen Blackwood

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Stephen James Blackwood is a Canadian-American professor, academic, and social commentator. Blackwood is the founder and president of Ralston College, a liberal arts college awaiting accreditation in Savannah, Georgia. We met on the Daily Wire+ Exodus panel where he had a lot of amazing insights and we have become friends since.

In this discussion, we talk about Stephen’s wonderful book, The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy, an exploration of The Consolation of Philosophy, a book by Boethius. We discuss Boethius’ role and contribution to the Medieval Western world and the amazing treasury of wisdom and consolation he can still offer us today. His legacy beautifully bridges and synthesizes the ancient pagan world, and a secular space, with the foundations and hope of a Christian vision.

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Timestamps:
00:49 - Intro music
01:14 - Start
02:16 - Who was Boethius?
06:18 - Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy
11:23 - Gathering the wisdom of the past
15:27 - Maintaining a secular space
18:06 - Christianity can hold both
18:30 - The problem of rationality
23:09 - The basic argument of the book
33:32 - Actions are rewards
36:15 - The ending
39:36 - We need recurrence
44:40 - Memory and knowledge
50:20 - Knowledge is a stabilization
54:28 - Music of the spheres
56:47 - Memory places
58:35 - We are formed by what we do
01:06:27 - Poetic rhythm
01:11:52 - Constance

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