Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Matthew Stewart, “The Epicurean Republic” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Nov 15, 2021

01:27:37

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Is There Something Fundamentally Wrong With the Common Picture of the Mind?

04:26

Is There a Revolutin in the World?

02:38

The Pursuit of Happiness

04:48

Introduction

2min

The American Revolution

4min

Is There a Freethinker?

2min

What's the Difference Between a Philosopher and a General?

2min

The American Enlightenment and Priestcraft

4min

The American Revolutionist

3min

What Is Deism? And What Does It Mean Now?

2min

What Is Daism Not?

4min

The Relationship Between Thom Young and Thomas Young

4min

10.

What Matters Is the Lawfulness of Nature

3min

11.

Epen Allan's Bible

4min

12.

The Ideas Are in the Air, and They Are Shared

2min

13.

The American Revolution

3min

14.

The American Revolution

4min

15.

We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident

2min

16.

Is There Something Fundamentally Wrong With the Common Picture of the Mind?

4min

17.

Is There Consciousness Without Truth?

2min

18.

The Pursuit of Happiness

5min

19.

Is There a Revolutin in the World?

3min

20.

Are You a Reformed Atheist?

4min

21.

The Idea That Driven the American Revolution, Isn't It?

4min

22.

What Do You Think the Founding Fathers Would Do?

3min

23.

Howard, You Ask the Greatest Questions, Howard

3min

24.

The American Revolution

2min

25.

The American Revolution

3min

26.

The Fundamentals of Democracy

2min

27.

Is There an American God?

2min

28.

The Story of America's Goi

5min

The Epicurean Republic is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and award-winning author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart. In his later years, Thomas Jefferson referred to “the revolutionary part of the [American] Revolution”, which for him meant the founding ideals that would serve as a model for the world on how to build a modern state, as opposed to an incidental squabble between one country and its former colonists. This wide-ranging conversation explores how many of these ideals that Jefferson referred to are part of an intellectual thread that passes through key Enlightenment thinkers such as Spinoza and can be traced all the way back to Epicurus.

Howard Burton is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow, Ideas on Film and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.

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