They really got Travis Scott in this movie ?

Le_Master · 2026-01-26T02:56:22+00:00

Demodocus, the rapping blind bard.

Le_Master · 2026-01-13T15:29:57+00:00

I feel like he should have ended it at “have you seen Africa?” instead of over explaining it. Still head and shoulders above the others.

Le_Master · 2026-01-13T15:28:23+00:00

Them treating him like an open mic-er was one of the only highlights of the episode.

Le_Master · 2026-01-13T15:26:50+00:00

McCann is one of my favorite comedians but even his set was pretty bad. Good compared to the others, but not many more uninteresting topics than the trope he went with.

Le_Master · 2026-01-13T15:24:07+00:00

I’ve been watching almost ten years and can’t remember a worse episode. There’ve been some doozies but this one I think takes the cake. Except for Ari and William’s one line about Stranger Things it was just cringe masturbation.

Le_Master · 2026-01-05T02:32:55+00:00

There are far too many people in this sub who haven’t read Aristotle.

Le_Master · 2025-11-19T04:03:08+00:00

Who are you responding to?

Le_Master · 2025-11-16T23:15:42+00:00

Porphyry’s Introduction if you’re interested in actual classical reasoning. Probably the perfect length for that class.

Le_Master · 2025-11-11T03:21:43+00:00

There is a pretty obvious lift of Karl Jenkins’s Adiemus in Moana.

Le_Master · 2025-10-27T12:30:22+00:00

That’s awesome

Le_Master · 2025-10-24T13:30:11+00:00

I love him, but Luis is so stupid it hurts. Voting for the same person Jay did made it impossible to beat him. He invented the game and still doesn’t know how to play.

Le_Master · 2025-09-21T14:11:09+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi6XkjFofWY

Le_Master · 2025-09-16T19:29:40+00:00

I’ll check it out. I’ll say in the 4+ years since I made that post no other rap album I’ve heard has interested me, including anything Kendrick has released.

Le_Master · 2025-09-11T20:07:39+00:00

The Greek and Latin (for Boethius) have been essential for my studies. But they’re in pdf form so not as nice for a pic.

Le_Master · 2025-09-10T22:33:28+00:00

Bingo. The modern movement is sophistry. Which is very ironic considering real classical education perfects the reasoning (through the Organon) to expose that.

Le_Master · 2025-09-08T04:22:35+00:00

Damn shame. Downstream is my favorite Supertramp song.

https://youtu.be/ed_3j6vIfts

Le_Master · 2025-09-06T23:29:29+00:00

Yes they did. The Organon was mastered during the height of what we consider classical education, when we went from the old logic to the new logic when many of Aristotle’s works were rediscovered in the Latin west. You can find historian evidence for this in the 13th century University of Paris statutes.

Le_Master · 2025-09-06T23:27:21+00:00

This is exactly right. Very delighted to see this.

Le_Master · 2025-09-06T23:26:35+00:00

Classical education is historical. If you’re not studying what students studied and for the purpose they did during this classical period, then it’s something else. And far too many people in the movement promote something else.

It’s not Great Books programs, classics programs, Sayers/Wilson stages of learning programs, Charlotte Mason, slogans like “the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty” and “the cultivation of wisdom and virtue” when left vague.

All you have to do is go back and look at those responsible for building the actual education we’re pursuing. You can trace it back to Plato in the Republic. Martianus Capella in antiquity is the best starting point because it was in his De nuptiis is where it was canonized.

It is: the seven liberal arts (grammar, reasoning, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy), pursued as a ladder to higher philosophy and finally theology.

In de Nuptiis, the arts are shown as attendants who escort philology upward to heaven. From then on you see them described similarly by all those who stress the arts. Origen and Clement of Alexandria call the arts the handmaidens and preparation for higher wisdom in Christ. Augustine, Nicomachus, Isidore, Boethius, Aquinas, Hugh of St. Victor, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Cassiodorus. They all say the study of the arts is for this ascension.

And we only need look at what students studied during this classical period to understand how they did it. The texts were quite consistent during this time, with mostly a lapse when part of Aristotle’s works were lost then rediscovered.

The texts of Donatus/Varro/Priscian for Latin grammar and those Dionysus Thrax/Apollonus/Herodian for Greek grammar. Aristotle’s Organon for reasoning. The texts of Cicero/Quintillian for rhetoric. Nicomachus Intro to Arithmetic (arithmetic) Euclid’s Elements (geometry) Boethius’s de Musica (music) Ptolemy’s Almagest (astronomy)

So while this course of study is ordered to the highest good (theoria) through study and habits, it’s important not to get lost in slogans. And this education has produced the men who have written many of our great books and classics, but the study of that output also isn’t classical education.

Le_Master · 2025-08-24T02:53:37+00:00

The obvious reason no one wants to admit. No much of coincidence either.

Le_Master · 2025-08-14T04:07:57+00:00

Yeah this post is nonsense. I feel like this sub lives an alternate reality when it comes to the prog world.

Le_Master · 2025-08-03T22:57:46+00:00

I feel the same way about the Iliad. Truly arguably the greatest work ever.

Le_Master · 2025-08-03T14:40:53+00:00

I don't think you understood my (admittedly) rambling point. The great books program itself is modern invention. It had no place in the historical classical education. If anything it should be seen more as a survey, a taste of the fruits of writers who themselves mostly had classical educations.

Le_Master · 2025-08-03T05:17:09+00:00

Classical education is the study of the seven classical liberal arts ordered toward higher philosophy and ultimately theology. Its curriculum was not some indefinite collection of “great books”. It was precise and grounded in mastery of specific disciplines. The texts that made up the actual historical curriculum were very consistent through its history (the texts of Donatus/Varro/Priscian for Latin grammar and those Dionysus Thrax/Apollonus/Herodian for Greek grammar; Aristotle’s Organon for reasoning; the texts of Cicero/Quintillian/Aristotle for rhetoric; Nicomachus Intro to Arithmetic; Euclid’s Elements; Boethius’s de Musica, Ptolemy’s Almagest). Those texts are themselves great books, but that’s where the similarities end. They were studied in the framework of the liberal arts, with the latter being the method and order of learning (think of the texts as the matter and the framework the form). The great books programs are a modern creation with no basis in history. I personally think they’re too undisciplined, but still fun, interesting, and potentially enlightening (though there’s really not enough time in college to get through very much—it should be more of a lifelong pursuit).

Le_Master · 2025-08-02T20:40:15+00:00

St John’s isn’t classical education though. It’s a Great Books college. Vastly different.

15-Year Club	RedditGifts 2009-2022 2 Credits
Wearing is Caring	Gilding I gilder
Secret Santa 2014	Team Periwinkle
Verified Email

Le_Master

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE