Just Another Book Club Podcast

On this episode, distinguished scholar of the Enlightenment, Professor Margaret Jacob, joins me to discuss her book, The Secular Enlightenment. We discuss how the concepts of time and space go through a radical change in the 18th century, how to define secularism, the importance of the rise of populated cities and much more.  

On this episode, we try and make sense of Jung's concepts of the collective unconscious and the archetypes, and how these ideas influence Jung's concept of the self. We also enquire how such concepts could possibly effect historical study. 

On this episode, we delve into the arguments presented by early modern divines pushing back on the perceived threat of atheism. Largely thanks to growing anxieties over the revival of Epicurean philosophy, attached to contemporary authors, such as, Thomas Hobbes, these Christian apologists used the rhetorical argument genre know as confutation. Sheppard brilliantly analyzes these arguments and argues that an important shift takes place with the anti-atheism movement at the dawn of the Enlightenment. 

On this episode, special guest Francis Lukban joins the show to talk about the post-apocalyptic classic novel. We discuss some major themes of the book, share a few laughs from our time in college, and try to figure out how to pronounce Leibowitz. 

On this episode, Joey Wolfensberger joins the show to talk about David Hume's philosophy, and some old college stories.

With special guest James Hires, we discuss some of the metaphysical theories of Alan Watts. Most significantly, his view that the universe is one and that all existent things are connected. 

On the first episode of Just Another Book Club Podcast, we discuss a book on war, deceit, and foreign political issues that occupied the English Nation in 1624. In the Blessed Revolution, Thomas Cogswell details how a massive foreign policy shift occurred within the English government. We will discuss all of this and how Cogswell's book can open our minds to even bigger questions about history.