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Today we bring you the 20th and final episode of season 3. This season we talked about all things liberal arts from music and monarchy to Plato and Socrates to freeing minds and humanizing humans. It only seemed right then, to finish this seaso
“You creatures of earth, don’t you stop to consider the people over which you think you exercise authority?” This conversation between two ‘non- serial’ entrepreneurs, Christof Meyer and AMI’s own John Johnson, will change the way you view ent
Mother, grandmother, and author, Leila Lawler joins Larissa to talk about raising children faithfully. She explains how we can escape the traps of the modern world and provide something beautiful for our children to imitate, thus creating sacre
Enjoy the first half of the first lecture in Senior Fellow, Dr. Arias' course, "Philosophy of Man."Building on Aristotle and St. Thomas's philosophical account of the human person, this class focused on St. Thomas's teachings on man's natural
Today, we are offering you another glimpse into the Magnus Fellowship; this time with Senior Fellow, Dr. Helen Freeh's course, "Friendship and Freedom in the Lord of the Rings."This is the first half of the first class of the final 8- week cou
Blessed Feast of St. Albert the Great!On this special day, we spoke with Leigh Bortins of Classical Conversations who, like St. Albert the Great before us, shares our love for a liberating education.Education is never free, and, like all good
Once again, we are offering you a quick glimpse into the Magnus Fellowship; this time with Senior Fellow, Dr. Finley's class, “Rousseau and the Diabolical and Moral Imagination."This course explores the moral dimensions of the imagination thro
Dr. Amir Sabzevary has spent the last thirty years teaching philosophy and religion. Today, he joins John to talk about the journey of both teaching and studying philosophy– how to trek through complicated lives as students and how to reach the
This week on the Magnus Podcast, John and Larissa talk moral theology with high school teacher, Rocky Brittain and attempt to answer difficult moral questions according to Catholic Theology and Thomas Aquinas, such as when is it permissible to
In this fast paced world full of echo chambers and outrage machines, we are fooled into believing a misguided view of justice and rhetoric. Dr. Joshua Phillips joins us to talk about how we can properly understand the connection between justice
AMI exists because we, like so many, see a problem with the current university system. What is the modern university providing to its students in comparison to what it ought to be providing? What is the purpose of a university?We just complet
"What is the best way of life for a human being?" The Republic is the most complete attempt by Plato to articulate and answer this question. It is characteristic of Plato that, in the Republic, questions about human happiness ultimately cannot
Musician and composer, Greg Wilbur of New College Franklin contemplates music within the quadrivium; he explains why music ought to be ordered rightly in education and how it rests in harmony with the other Liberal Arts. He even discusses a lit
“Take courage daughter, the world is not as strong as it seems.” From the diary of Maria FaustinaBrian Fink has returned to the Magnus Podcast to discuss what it means to see reality as it is: to see oneself in order to better understand the
This conversation with Dr. Gary Hartenburg looks at education from a bird’s-eye view before zooming into talk about virtue, specifically the virtue of prudence, according to Aristotle, and ends with little bit of theology. Dr. Gary Hartenburg
Earlier this spring, we hosted a lovely webinar on one of the most playful of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chanticleer and the Fox. Now we're releasing it as a podcast so you too can enjoy it!Listen as Dr. Shannon Val
How does man know? What are the roles of signs in knowing? What does “meaning” mean? What does man want to know? What are the objects to knowing?In this episode, Dr. Brian Kemple of the Lyceum Institute discusses these questions and opens the
“We can’t teach the humanities unless the students have been humanized."In this episode, Dr. Jared Staudt discusses the text, Newman’s Idea of A University, and begs the question, ”What does it mean to explore reality?” He challenges educators
Across the sea, Charles III has just been coronated King of England and much ado was made in his and his country’s honor. On our homeland, America is, as always, in the throes of her own democratic controversies. Now on the podcast, we asked
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Zena Hitz; tutor at St. John’s College, author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, and Co-founder and President of the Catherine Project. Listen as she discusses what it means
“The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this the task and mighty labor lies.”- from The Aeneid of VirgilThe Magnus Podcast returns with Dr. Matthew Bia
We now bring you Spy Wednesday Bonus Episode 2, continuing in the theme of Holy Week. This is an excerpt from our own John Johnson’s course in the Magnus Fellowship: In the end was the word: Eschatology, Mimesis, and the Beloved Disciple. Reme
In honor of Spy Wednesday, we are bringing you two back to back episodes today, both lectures by your favorite podcast host, the Founder and Executive Director of our own institute, John Johnson.The first comes from a talk John delivered at a
"Wherever he can find any possibility of doubt, he is going to call it downright false."Up now: Descartes and The Search for Certainty with Fr. Owen Carroll. Enjoy these lectures given by Fr. Owen Carroll to a small group of retired religious
"We see that Abraham is chosen, Abraham this one man with his clan around him... it’s promised to him that in him all nations, that is, all the rest of humanity... will find their blessedness in him."We now bring you Omnes Gentes, with Fr. Owe
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