How many episodes does Ascend - The Great Books Podcast have?

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast has 127 episodes.

What topics does Ascend - The Great Books Podcast cover?

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast covers topics including: arts, books, education, self improvement, history.

What language is Ascend - The Great Books Podcast in?

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast is in en.

Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

EN127 episodes

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Welcome to Ascend!We are a weekly Great Books podcast hosted by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan.What are the Great Books?The Great Books are the most impactful texts that have shaped Western civilization. They include ancients like Homer, Plato, St. Augustine, Dante, and St. Thomas Aquinas, and also moderns like Machiavelli, Locke, and Nietzsche. We will explore the Great Books with the light of the Catholic intellectual tradition.Why should we read the Great Books?Everyone is a discipl...

Notable Guests

TThomas Lackey8×DDcn. Garlick4×DDavid Niles3×DDr. Christopher Frey2×DDr. Frank Grabowski2×DDcn. Harrison Garlick2×d

Episodes (127)

Discover the Hidden Meaning of Narnia's Endless Winter

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Purgatorio: Beatrice (Cantos 32-33) with Joshua Charles and Dr. Frank Grabowski

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Purgatorio: The Earthly Paradise (Cantos 28-31) with Dr. Michael West

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Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Notable Guests

Episodes (127)

Discover the Hidden Meaning of Narnia's Endless Winter

Purgatorio: Beatrice (Cantos 32-33) with Joshua Charles and Dr. Frank Grabowski

Purgatorio: The Earthly Paradise (Cantos 28-31) with Dr. Michael West

Purgatorio: Gluttony and Lust (Cantos 23-27) with Fr. Patrick Briscoe, OP

Purgatorio: Acedia and Avarice (Cantos 18-22) with Dr. Sarah Berry

Purgatorio: Envy and Wrath (Cantos 13-17) with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson

Purgatorio: Ante-Purgatory and the Terrace on Pride (Cantos 6-12) with Mr. Luke...

Purgatorio: Ante-Purgatory Cantos 1-5 with Dr. Donald Prudlo

Introduction to Dante's Purgatorio with Dr. Jason Baxter

Q&A on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with Dr. Justin Jackson

Platonic Thought in St. Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Donald Prudlo

Plato's Influence on St. Boethius with Dr. Thomas Ward

Plato and St. Augustine with Dr. Chad Pecknold

Why Christians Should Read the Pagans with Alec Bianco and Sean Berube

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitt 4 with Chivalry Guild and Banished Kent

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitts 2 and 3 with Dr. Tiffany Schubert

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Fitt 1 with Dr. Justin Jackson

Plato and Education: The Teacher as a Lover of the Soul

Grace and the Grotesque: The Lame Shall Enter First by Flannery O'Connor with Dr...

Law of Nature: Part Three of Plato's Gorgias with Dr. Gregory McBrayer

Tyranny v Philosophy: Part Two of Plato's Gorgias with Dr. Matthew Bianco

Rhetoric and Philosophy: Part One of the Gorgias with Athenian Stranger and John...

Plato's Meno and Education with Dr. Daniel Wagner

Halloween Short Story: The Chief Mourner of Marne by GK Chesterton

Plato's Phaedo Explained with Dr. Christopher Frey Part II

Plato's Phaedo Explained with Dr. Christopher Frey Part I

On the Death of Socrates: Introducing Plato's Phaedo

The Crito by Plato with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos

Plato's Apology Part II with Fr. Justin Brophy, OP

Plato's Apology Part I with Fr. Justin Brophy, OP

Aquinas and the Euthyphro Dilemma with Dr. Donald Prudlo

The Euthyphro by Plato Part II with Dr. Joey Spencer and Friends

The Euthyphro by Plato Part I with Dr. Joey Spencer and Friends

Teaching Plato's First Alcibiades with Dr. Daniel Shields

First Alcibiades by Plato Part Two with Alec Bianco and Athenian Stranger

First Alcibiades by Plato Part One with Alec Bianco and Athenian Stranger

The Life of Alcibiades by Plutarch with Alex from Cost of Glory

Plato 101: An Introduction with Friends

NEW BOOK: The Transhumanist Temptation with Grayson Quay

Homer and the Greek Plays: A Roundtable with Friends

The Frogs by Aristophanes with Tsh Oxenreider

The Clouds by Aristophanes with Dr. Zina Hitz

Madness and Piety: A Discussion on The Bacchae Part II

Madness and Piety: A Discussion on The Bacchae Part I

Cursed by the Gods: Oedipus at Colonus Part Two

Cursed by the Gods: Oedipus at Colonus Part One

Know Thyself: A Discussion on Oedipus the King by Sophocles

The Dark Sign of the Gods: Antigone by Sophocles Part II

The Dark Sign of the Gods: Antigone by Sophocles Part I

Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus with Dr. Jared Zimmerer