Michael Knowles on Dante and the Politics of Pilgrimage

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@claujff7092 4 ай бұрын

Well dressed, well spoken, well presented, showing off his Italian language skills. Thanks for showing this very interesting speech, old politics but relevant to our time.

@pietramessa 4 ай бұрын

He made a lovely, fairly well-researched presentation. However, I would not refer to his "showing off" his language skills. I am a native speaker and know the Comedy intimately and still struggled to understand his pronunciation.

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

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@pietramessa 3 ай бұрын

@@EducatingForLiberty Offhand, I cannot think of one particular topic/presenter. Are you looking for someone who might present more literature or something related more directly to politics and society?

@lubormrazek5545 4 ай бұрын

Finally it's online, I've been waiting for this one

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

We know people were waiting. It was one of the best talks at Honors.

@truecatholic1 3 ай бұрын

@@EducatingForLiberty FYI. I think YT deleted one of your comments, so that I couldn't reply to it.

@NoellaKuper 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for a brilliant lecture Mr Knowles . I took a lot of notes and tips on how to study more .

@chegadesuade Ай бұрын

I'm coming back to this for my third watch, this was just one of the best lectures I've ever heard, I find myself constantly pausing the video to absorb the information he's sharing. The point about the fall of the tower of Babel introducing a gap between words and meaning, which itself is a further exaggeration of the gap between words and meaning introduced during the fall from heaven, since angels convey pure meaning, was brilliant, I've never heard that connection before.

@connormcpherson8793 4 ай бұрын

As I was listening to this, I was thinking of Michael's point about hylomorphism, how body and soul are a co-dependent union. To complete difficult physical labor, you must have fortitude, a strong soul. Meanwhile, to undertake fasting and prayer, or the mortification of sins, labor for the soul, you must have a well-fed body. Otherwise you'll exhaust. As Michael was talking about Dante's political background with the church and the state, I wonder if this is an allegory for the body and the soul? The state, the political, represents the body, which supports the physical competence of the people. Meanwhile, the church is the soul, the moral will of the people. They are not the same, but they are co-dependent. A church needs an effective state to enforce peace (as Michael discussed near the end), and a state is dependent upon the church to define the right from wrong to enforce. Just like with the body and soul, if you value one to the exclusion of the other, both collapse, and yet one is eternal and the other is temporal. We should never confuse them, nor think in our conceit that we can unify them in perfect harmony before that great day, when He is who Priest and King brings both together in Paradise.

@uneqejam 4 ай бұрын

Unified or not, they SHOULD BE in Perfect Harmony, otherwise your comparison of body and soul wouldn't stand either - the seed of all unhappiness, and as a result of physical disease, stands in the quality of relations between body and soul, and in a similar way, the root of all problems in a country stands in the quality of the relations between Church and State, otherwise, if this is not taken into account we'd have the mess we have now in the end, we don't need to go far to find an example for that......

@Lerian_V 3 ай бұрын

I have a brilliant homily on the sacred and the secular by Bishop Barron touching on the point you're making. It's on Facebook, but I uploaded a clipped version on my channel.

@joanr3189 4 ай бұрын

This is so interesting, so clearly presented. Food for thought on a September Sunday morning. Thank you for this post.

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

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@lol2876 3 ай бұрын

An outline of one highschool year in italian literature in Italy. Thank you Knowles

@Meyer-gp7nq 4 ай бұрын

I will be using this video to win a discord argument with friends who think dante just want to write a jesus fanfic about why philosophers and popes he disliked were in hell. Love Michaels obscure philosophical knowledge

@upenglishschool4932 3 ай бұрын

Michael, you are the best dude.

@gregtallent7827 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant presentation.

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

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@chegadesuade 4 ай бұрын

Looking forward to this lecture! I really enjoyed Michael's lectures on Christopher Columbus and George Washington, I think explaining history to average people is one of his great talents. I don't like the "own the libs" schtick that he usually does, I think he's at his best when he takes the high road and helps the west understand our history first.

@MaverickCulp 2 күн бұрын

An apt observation. I would amend your comment by saying that it is his own the libs routine is what funds his true gift of sharing history and philosophy.

@7oledit399 3 ай бұрын

You can't help but say THANK GOD FOR THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION after listening to this

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

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@7oledit399 3 ай бұрын

@@EducatingForLiberty Patrick Bet David has insane amount of wisdom and personal experience he could share

@Lerian_V 3 ай бұрын

@@EducatingForLiberty I would like to see Christine Emba.

@anon_genz 4 ай бұрын

I've never understood the difficulty people have in answering the question, 'What about those who never heard of Christ?' The Biblical narrative provides two answers: (1) God judges people according to the knowledge/light they were given (Romans 2:14-16), and (2) Christ descends into Hades to preach to the lost souls of the past (1 Peter 3:19). No need to invoke God's "Who are you" declaration to Job.

@aaroncanfield76 3 ай бұрын

The purpose of the separation of the Church and State is that they become united once again.-this I will be pondering...

@perennial_truth 4 ай бұрын

Excellent

@EducatingForLiberty 3 ай бұрын

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@perennial_truth 3 ай бұрын

@@EducatingForLiberty Fr. John Strickland would be great. And brain scientist Dr. Iain McGilchrist.

@mscimeca08 3 ай бұрын

❤a lover of Dante❤ what we will we accomplish before we exit? How did we serve Christ?

@danielthomas5057 4 ай бұрын

love the tie znd pin but those shoulders are spiky

@joanr3189 4 ай бұрын

That’s your comment?

@blum3141592 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting point that Christ’s punishment could only be in place of all mankind if the governing justice had authority over all mankind. I don’t agree with any of this, but I respect that logic.

@ZenexTheZealous 4 ай бұрын

The veneration of the Eucharist, the Body of Christ in the form of the consecrated host, had been regarded since Rudolf I as one of the central expressions of the Habsburgs’ strength of faith. The ruler once met a priest who was carrying the host to a sick person for the sacrament of Extreme Unction. As a sign of his humility before the sacrament, Rudolf is said to have given the priest his horse and accompanied him on foot. He would not ride the horse again as he refused since Christ his Lord had been on it. I hope as a Catholic that Dante's understanding of Rudolf was more nuanced than "that unfaithful bridegroom to Italy".

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@lorinsmall5403 3 ай бұрын

I feel like Bill is just afraid to change his mind because what does that say about how he lived his life, but that's not how it works. With God, you can forgive yourself and understand that he cares more about you coming around than what you've done to get there.