Wholly Orders James Landes
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Join James Landes, Ph.D., on Wholly Orders (whollyorders.com), for a philosophical and poetic exploration of the Western canon and tradition. This program supports a wholeness of the true, the good, and the beautiful, centered on Christianity and the Western intellectual canon and tradition, argued principally by means and use of philosophy, poetry, and cultural criticism. (Returning from hiatus in early 2020.)
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Modern Aimlessness & The Disintegration of the Intellect: Thinking on Purpose, Part 1
Modern Western man is in need of an examination of conscience.
For centuries, he has been willfully disintegrating his own understanding of reality in an act that might be described as one of intellectual self-sabotage. He has abandoned the transcendent. -
Contemplative Perseverance in the Face of Suffering (Good Disagreement, Part 2)
In the face of even unbearable stupidity and evil, the contemplative path retains an essential relationship to truth before any accidental or derivative considerations.
Civilization ultimately rests not upon the transient, but rather upon the permanent things.
For this very reason, the role of the contemplative, unlike that of the ideologue, is essential to civilization. -
Good Disagreement: The Shared Contemplative Act & The Pursuit of Truth (Good Disagreement, Part 1)
What on earth has happened to 'good disagreement'? Where has it gone? On the proper end of disagreement and the present crisis in thinking in the West.
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Common Sense & the ‘Essential’ Crisis of Thinking in the West
On the need of common sense, as a counter to ideology and the groundless thinking of our time. Reflections inspired by Samuel Johnson, C.S. Lewis, and G.K. Chesterton.
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Living in Truth: Conversion to Reality, Not an Escape
For modern man, the all-too-often shunned option of living in truth, in the sense of engaging reality, rather than fleeing from it into his own ideas, offers a choice that amounts to a desperately needed conversion in a profound philosophical sense. By conversion here one speaks of the act of restoring the connection between thinking and reality.
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The (Rumored) ‘Death of God’ & Modernity’s Descent into the Marshes
A meditation on the modern rejection of transcendence. Consideration of Nietzschean nihilism, and the rash judgment of the present generation. Belloc, not Nietzsche, was correct about the trajectory of modern thinking and civilization. On the need for a return to a philosophy grounded in being and objective truth.
Customer Reviews
Always opens the Mind and Heart
I am really enjoying Wholly Orders podcasts. James Landes drops you into pieces of poetry and writings that you may be totally unfamiliar with - and then connects the ideas into the world we are seeking to understand today. Listening in to his podcasts has fulfilled the gap for me - always thoughtful and thought provoking on a very human level. Cheers