Tagged: myth

In Pursuit of Utopia #4: “Common Sense”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-4-common-sense/: Today we take a look at the aims and ideals of the American and French revolutions as well as the results. How’d they go? France quickly descended into headlessness, and the USA...

In Pursuit of Utopia #3: “Noble Lies”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-3-noble-lies/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode:“The development from Aquinas through Locke and Newton represents more than four hundred...

In Pursuit of Utopia #2: “Illumination”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-2-illumination/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode: In the 17th century a small group of religious luminaries built a colonial...

In Pursuit of Utopia #1: “From the Top Down”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-the-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-one-from-the-top-down/: This is the pilot episode in a new monthly historical series with Daniel McCarthy. Danny is a 24-year-old SSP listener, blogger and researcher, and the author of an upcoming book on the...

Destroy the Mad Brute, Part 2: The Rulers of Men

“As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, and hides the ruin that it feeds upon, so Sophistry cleaves close to and protects sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its defects.” -William Cowper,The Progress of Error...

The Importance of Myth: A Preface to Plato

All cultures that I am aware of are laden with myths. In his best-known work, the old philosopher Plato argued that the rulers of the ideal society would contrive myths to encourage perfect public...