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