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The Intellectual Life, Continued | Episode XXVII

July 15, 2022 • Ancient Language Institute • Episode 27

Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of A.G. Sertillanges’s marvelous The Intellectual Life. In chapters 4 -6, Sertillanges touches on, among other things, sleep, the pursuit of wisdom in everyday life, and breadth of study in service of depth.

A.G. Sertillanges’s The Intellectual Life: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780813206462

Editorial Note: The mention of the “dies academicus” refers, not to our episode on Eric Voegelin (as we mistakenly said), but to our episode on Pope Benedict XVI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/benedict-in-regensburg-faith-reason-and-the/id1570296135?i=1000542008795

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