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The Ciceronian Society exists to equip and encourage Christian scholars to serve the church as a center of cultural and civic renewal.
Through our events, publications, and podcasts we provide the space and opportunities that Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox scholars need for professional growth and intellectual discipleship.
Since 2012, we have been building a network of friends with a love for our core themes - tradition, place, and ‘things divine’ - and with a genuine commitment to the church and the life of the mind.
To learn more about our society, our conferences, and the peer-reviewed journal, Pietas, visit https://ciceroniansociety.org/
EPISODE 54 - Aristocratic Voices Roundtable (2025 Academy of Philosophy & Letters Panel)
The Sower
1 hour 19 minutes 5 seconds
4 weeks ago
EPISODE 54 - Aristocratic Voices Roundtable (2025 Academy of Philosophy & Letters Panel)
This special episode is a recording of a panel at the June 2025 meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in College Park, Maryland. We are grateful to the APL for their permission to publish this recording.
The panel is titled "Book Roundtable – Aristocratic Voices: Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority, and Inequality" and the panelists are:
Ethan Alexander-Davey, Campbell University, “Aristocracy and the Forms That Fit”
Matthew T. Cantirino, The University of Dallas, “Henry Adams: Aristocracy in an American?”
Luke C. Sheahan, Duquesne University, “Authority, Hierarchy, and the Social Bond in the Aristocratic Thought of Robert Nisbet”
Michael Federici, Middle Tennessee State University, “Irving Babbitt on Democracy and Leadership”
Michael Harding, Montgomery College, “Against the Tarantulas: Nietzsche on Aristocracy”
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0:00 Introduction
7:51 Ethan Alexander-Davey, Panel Introduction
20:52 Matthew Cantirino on Henry Adams
37:13 Luke Sheahan on Robert Nisbet
49:35 Michael Federici on Irving Babbit
1:01:09 Michael Harding on Nietzsche's Tarantulas
The Sower
The Sower is a Podcast of the Ciceronian Society.
The Ciceronian Society exists to equip and encourage Christian scholars to serve the church as a center of cultural and civic renewal.
Through our events, publications, and podcasts we provide the space and opportunities that Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox scholars need for professional growth and intellectual discipleship.
Since 2012, we have been building a network of friends with a love for our core themes - tradition, place, and ‘things divine’ - and with a genuine commitment to the church and the life of the mind.
To learn more about our society, our conferences, and the peer-reviewed journal, Pietas, visit https://ciceroniansociety.org/
