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The Western Traditions Podcast

Robert Paxton

A podcast, in twelve series, about the history of western culture and traditions.

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45:58

Episode IX.05 - Sympathy for the Bully: Part One -...

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2024/08/30

Who is rewarded by the school system? Who benefits from the regimentation? Who benefits from the system of alienation? The child who sits still. The child who is quiet. The child who keeps his hands to himself. The child who doesn’t ask to go outside. We are trained to be docile from day one.

08:09

Episode XII.003 - The Study Method II

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2024/08/22

The next step up in sophistication with regard to note-taking.

31:08

Episode II.36 - Greek Math

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2024/08/16

Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes and more. Over the centuries, the ancient Greeks separate Mathematics and other fields of study from philosophy.

42:03

Episode II.35 - Greek Science II: Introduction to...

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2024/08/09

The Aristotelian contribution to Greek Science. Defining first principles. Substance, Accidents and the nature of being.

11:16

Episode XII.002 - The Study Method I

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2024/07/26

Asking questions about your reading projects to increase retention of information. The power of handwriting. Avoiding negative input during the early stages of learning.

21:07

Episode XIB.005 - Genesis 4:1-16

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2024/07/25

The blood of thy brother cries out to me from the earth! The typology of Abel and Christ.

45:22

Episode II.34 - Greek Philosophy V: Plato’s Republic

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2024/07/19

Socrates envisions a just society in which men and women are equals, and all are suited perfectly for their station in life. But is the cost of this just society too high? Censorship, lies and eugenics in the philosophy of Plato.

35:28

Episode II.33 - Greek Philosophy IV: The Death of...

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2024/07/11

From his jail cell in Athens, Socrates makes his last argument in defense of the immortal soul. Death as separation of body and soul. The essences of Beauty, Justice and more. The perfection and purity of the soul.

40:26

Episode XIB.004 - Genesis 3

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2024/07/04

Adam and Eve listen to the serpent, and suffer exile from Paradise as a consequence. Adam, Eve, the tree and the serpent prefigure Christ, Mary, the cross and Satan.

55:44

Episode II.32 - The Anabasis of Xenophon

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2024/06/27

Xenophon disregards the advice of Socrates and joins the army of Cyrus the Younger. When Cyrus dies in combat against his brother, Artaxerxes, King of Persia, Xenophon and others lead ten thousand Greek soldiers on a long retreat home.

42:58

Episode XIB.003 - Genesis 2:4 - 25

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2024/06/13

Made from earth, and from each other, man and woman meet in Paradise. The meaning of marriage. The eschatology of Genesis.

32:26

Episode X.002 - Paleo-American Origins I: The...

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2024/06/07

The Beringia Theory. Clovis points and the extinction of the megafauna.

31:41

Episode XIB.002 - Genesis 1:1 - 2:3

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2024/05/30

The creation of the world in seven days. Allegory and Anagogy. The textual loop of Scripture.

41:18

Episode II.31 - Greek Philosophy III: The Trial of...

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2024/05/24

Socrates stands trial for impiety. The Apology and the Crito. The similarities between Socrates and Christ.

30:19

Episode II.30 - Greek Drama III: Aristophanes

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2024/05/16

Aristophanes mocks and derides the latest developments in Athenian society, and lambasts the motives for the seemingly endless Peloponnesus War. His play, The Clouds, takes aim at Socrates and all philosophers.

09:46

Episode X.001 - Introduction to the Americas

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2024/05/10

Native Americans are the real westerners. As an outsider, in this series, I investigate the history and culture of more than ten thousand years in the Americas.

16:33

Episode XII.001 - Introduction to the Western...

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2024/05/08

Implementing the Western Traditions Podcast as a personal curriculum. For homeschool or for adults.

50:11

Episode II.29 - Greek Philosophy II: Introduction to...

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2024/05/02

Introduction to Socrates and Plato and the tetralogies of dialogues. First Principles. Post-war Athens. Analysis of Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro.

23:45

Episode XIB.001 - Introduction to the Old Testament

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2024/04/25

The Bible is our book. No matter which religious tradition to which you belong, even if you are non-religious, this is your book. This is your patrimony, just as the Iliad and the Odyssey and the works of Aristotle and Plato are your inheritance.

23:31

Episode IX.04 - The Dead Internet

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2024/04/19

On the periphery of this online cemetery, we grubby humans rifle through the garbage, looking for a movie on Netflix or flicking past several hundred TikTok’s, all the while, beyond the gates of the graveyard, the bots replicate and babble to one another - the animated, digital ruins of a society that once built pyramids and dared to cross the oceans in ships powered by the wind.

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