Tim Mather tells us about bringing Aristotle into contemporary life, and about keeping a famous family tree alive.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. Aristotle instructing Alexander the Great [cropped]. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
Robert Caro
The Passage of Power
Anton Chekhov
"The Boor"
Winston Churchill
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last."
John Cotton / Richard Mather
The Bay Psalm Book
Sebastian De Grazia
Machiavelli in Hell
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Jonathan Edwards
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Benjamin Franklin
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Finding Your Roots
Jessica Hagy
Indexed
Michael Haneke
The White Ribbon
Samantha Harvey
Orbital
David Hume
Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Judgment
Søren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death
John Landis
An American Werewolf in London
John Locke
Ludacris
Alasdair MacIntyre
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Abijah P. Marvin
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather
On Witchcraft
David McCullough
Morrissey
Autobiography
Mihkel Mutt
The Inner Immigrant
Mike Myers
"Sprockets"
Nextdoor
Plato
POYKPAC Comedy
"Hipster Olympics"
Vidkun Quisling
Richard P. Rumelt
The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
Douglas Rushkoff
Get Back in the Box
Sons of the American Revolution
The Smiths
"Ask"
Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Leo Tolstoy
"The Death of Ivan Ilych"
Leo Tolstoy
"The Kreuzer Sonata"
Leo Tolstoy
"Where There Is Love, There God Is Also"
Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday
