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PEL Special: Combat & Classics #11 on Rousseau’s “Discourse on the Arts and Sciences”

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A new podcast for the PEL Podcast Network! Meet Jeff, Lise, and Brian, who are joined by Wes and Dylan to discuss Rousseau’s claim that the arts and sciences lead to “moral corruption.”

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Combat & Classics #9: Joseph Conrad’s “Typhoon”

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More Conrad with Jeff, Lise, and Brian—this one is a rip-roaring, seafaring tale!
This novella tells the story of Captain McWhirr, his crew, and his ship’s brawling passengers as they sail through a typhoon. The work raises questions about leadership in the face of human conflict and natural disasters.

Combat & Classics #1: Sophocles’s Ajax

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The first episode from a new member of the PEL Podcasting network, featuring Brian Wilson with St. John’s profs Lise van Boxel and Jeffrey J.S. Black. Listen here as they discuss Sophocles’s play Ajax about a great Greek warrior who takes his own life on the beach of Troy.

Combat & Classics #0: Introduction

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Join Lise, Jeff, and Brian for the kickoff podcast, in which we talk a bit about what we’ll cover and why.
Spoiler alert: it’s a strange brew of classical literature, military history and culture, and the human experience of war.

About The Partially Examined Life

The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don’t have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we’re talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion

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