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by Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan

130 episodes·weekly·History, Education, Arts

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About Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

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 disciple of someone. A person may have never read Locke or Nietzsche, but he or she thinks like them. Reading the Great Books allows us to reclaim our intellect and understand the origin of the ideas that shape our world. We enter a "great conversation" amongst the most learned, intelligent humans in history and benefit from their insights.Is this for first-time readers?YES. Our goal is to host meaningful conversations on the Great Books by working through the texts in chronological order

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