Ralston College presents a lecture by Dr Jason Pedicone, distinguished scholar and classicist and the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institute.

In this rich and compelling address, Dr Pedicone introduces the subject of philology - the study of language in its historical context - before embarking on a historical tour of philological interventions – times when people have decided to pay particularly close attention to language for societal, historical or technological reasons. Our tour takes us from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds of Plato and Pisistratus through Charlemagne, Valla, Erasmus, Nietzsche and up to the present day and the inexorable rise of AI.

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Authors and Works Mentioned in this Episode:

C.S Lewis
Plato
Suetonius
Pisistratus
Homer - The Iliad; The Odyssey
Aristophanes of Byzantium
Aristarchus of Samothrace
Callimachus of Cyrene
Quintus Ennius
Livius Andronicus
St. Boniface
Jerome
Charlemagne
Alcuin of York
Boniface
Lorenzo Valla
Desiderius Erasmus - Novum Instrumentum Omne
Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - Philology of the Future
Friedrich August Wolf - Prolegomena ad Homerum
Derrida
Plato - The Phaedrus
Roland Barthes - The Death of the Author
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Heidegger - Being and Time
Camus
Shakespeare
Marsilio Ficino
Nick Bostrum - Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Ray Kurzweil