I joined Rewire the West for a couple of X spaces recently.
A roundtable discussion on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I chose most of the passages to discuss and we focused on Prospero and what type of human being he ultimately represents. The two readings under consideration: is Prospero a Socratic / philosopher king; or, is he a Faustian who ultimately turns to Christianity?
A one on one discussion turning to the opening lines of both the Iliad and Odyssey as well as key moments from both that help us understand the stakes underlying Achilles’ deliberation over what the best way of life is for a human being.
I’m working on a more detailed The Tempest lecture for next weekend, but I think that the roundtable discussion includes some pretty helpful remarks from the other participants (including Athenian Stranger) so I thought it was worth sharing.
I forgot if I posted a link to this before, but I joined Kruptos for a discussion on the possibility of a union between Christianity and Vitalism. If that kind of discussion is interesting, you might enjoy my discussion with my good friend Phocaean Dionysius on the possibility of an Aristocratic Christianity—a vision of Christianity that might resist Nietzsche’s powerful critiques of it—and indeed, perhaps, as Zero HP Lovecraft audaciously proposes, the kind of Christianity that Nietzsche is challenging us to rediscover.