Utopianism
200Building a City State out of Plato
29 Jul 2024
5:06¶ 22
“When we talk about utopias, Plato’s Republic usually is first historically on the list, but as utopias go it’s rather a pathetic one. It…”
32:44¶ 120
“As you’ve been talking it reminds me of the fact that his system has been, with some variations, asserted and repeated over and over…”
33:18¶ 121
“You detach them from God. You put God far away. You detach them from education of the world around them. You detach them from…”
131Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 4) - The Myth of Consent
15 Aug 2022
26:49¶ 84
“They go on to talk about how we need to build systems that will generate – I don’t know if any of them ever…”
27:06¶ 86
“Yeah, but they actually thought they could do it. They actually thought they could maintain what they saw as the best parts of Christian…”
27:36¶ 87
“This man who’s writing the book in the 1920s is saying, “My, weren’t they silly? Weren’t they foolish? Weren’t they inconsistent? Couldn’t they see…”
99Hannah
3 Jan 2022
22:59¶ 92
“The Christian temptation has always been, “Well, let’s force people to be good by taking control of enough power, so that the people in…”
23:25¶ 93
“You go down the list of all the external things, which may or may not be good or bad, but if we give the…”
23:41¶ 94
“That’s something that America in its collective history has faced for a long time. It’s a perversion, a secularization of post-millennialism. It’s Utopianism. “We…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
40:55¶ 138
“Beyond that you also have in Communist ideology, both in Europe and in Asia, whether we’re talking Russia, China, or less so Vietnam, this…”
40:26¶ 137
“A question. When we’re talking about the Christian view of progress, and as we’re moving through those different social movements that really pushed missionary…”
41:08¶ 139
“Utopianism.”