Pick and and read! The great books are filled with wisdom and truth. My book, The Odyssey of Love, explores the beauty, wisdom, and truth in books like Homer’s Iliad, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Shakespeare’s dramas, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and many more!| Discourses on Minerva
How should Christians read the Great Books? From art to literature to music to films, the great works of culture are moved by Beauty and Love pointing to a Transcendent reality where Love exists be…| Discourses on Minerva
Friedrich Schelling was one of the late German Idealists and Romantics. Though he was a contemporary of many greats like Johann Fichte, Johann Herder (briefly), Hegel, and others, Schelling’s philosophy blossomed in the later period of German philosophy after Hegel. Although influenced by Kant and Fichte, he also attempted to shed the solipsism of Fichte […]| Discourses on Minerva
I consider it one of the great blessings of my life to have studied with Sir Roger Scruton just prior to his death. After graduating from Yale, I ventured overseas to England to study with the emin…| Discourses on Minerva
In this brief lecture, we explore the myths and symbols of American art and culture, specifically the American Adam and the dialectical tension between the Garden and the Machine. In overviewing American symbolism and mythology in art, culture, literature, and film, we utilize the writings of R.W.B. Lewis and Leo Marx to help us understand […]| Discourses on Minerva
In this lecture, we explore Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, what he means by democracy, and how he correctly foresaw the danger and rise of the administrative state and imperial presidency as dangers to American democracy. ________________________________________________________________ Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, […]| Discourses on Minerva
In this lecture, we explore and examine Plato’s philosophy and explain how to avoid common mistakes when reading and interpreting Plato. In this talk, we cover the theory of the forms and the…| Discourses on Minerva
In this series of three online lectures, I explore and explain the meaning of Dante’s Inferno, the relationship of Dante and Virgil, and the political allegory of The Inferno. These three lectures combine for just over an hour of commentary and reflection on Dante’s journey through hell and how we, as readers, should understand the […]| Discourses on Minerva
In this lecture, we explore and explain what Eric Voegelin meant when he described “Gnostic” politics. Looking at The New Science of Politics and Order and History, we understand Eric V…| Discourses on Minerva
In these three online lectures, I discuss the significance and meaning of the poetry of Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Virgil, Ovid, and Horace. In other words, these three lectures form a cohesive exploration into the Greek and Latin classics, the meaning of classic poetry, and why it still matters. LECTURE ONE: HOMER & THE […]| Discourses on Minerva
