The Classroom

In this episode, Professor Ron takes us on a classical tour of London.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this episode, Professor Ron takes us on a classical tour of Paris.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this episode, Professor Ron takes us on a classical tour of Rome.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this episode, Professor Ron takes us on a classical tour of Athens Greece. Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this Plato's dialogue, Socrates engages in a discussion with two prominent Athenians, Laches and Nicias, about the nature and definition of the virtue of courage. The dialogue centers around the question of what courage truly is and whether it can be taught.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this influential work, Thoreau explores the concept of civil disobedience as a means of protesting unjust laws. He argues that individuals have a moral responsibility to resist and disobey unjust laws to bring about social change.The essay, first published in 1849, had a significant impact on future movements advocating for civil rights, nonviolent resistance, and social justice. Thoreau's ideas continue to inspire and provoke critical thinking about the balance between individual rights and responsibilities within society.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this Plato dialogue - Socrates engages Lysis and Menexenus trying to explore the question of what friendship truly is. Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Socrates explores the meaning of temperance/self-control/moderation. Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a young boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as temperance, moderation, self-control, or restraint.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In the dialogue of Protagoras, Socrates and Protagoras are exploring the idea/question of virtue(highest morality) that can be taught. Protagoras the Sophist who has been running around Athens teaching virtue meet Socrates. Socrates is asking Protagoras if virtue can really be taught.Erick Nganyange and Professor Ron are looking at virtue in our current society.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this dialogue/conversation, Crito tries unsuccessfully to persuade Socrates to escape from prison after he was sentenced to die, but Socrates insists on obeying the law, a wrong can never be justified, a citizen must uphold the law. One must not even do wrong when one is wronged. " One must "not just live, but live well." Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Socrates was charged, tried, and convicted of crimes of impiety (introducing a different God than the God ancient Greece believed and worshiped) and corrupting the youth.Before Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC too much was going on in Athens that most historians believe led to Athenians handing Socrates the death penalty. In this episode professor, Ron Cline goes into the background and events that led to the philosopher’s death by poison.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this Plato conversation called Euthyphro, Socrates met Euthyphro outside the court of Athens as Socrates was coming out from hearing charges of impiety against him, and Euthyphro was on his way to court to prosecute his own father for unintentionally killing a murderous hired hand.Since Socrates was accused of impiety and Euthyphro was prosecuting his father for impiety, Socrates was curious to learn from Euthyphro what piety is.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Welcome to season 2 of the classroom. In this season we will be discussing Plato’s Dialogues and trying to understand the mind of Socrates. Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought, whose way of life, character, and thought exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy. Socrates never wrote a word, all we know about him is through his student/follower Plato. Plato was a philosopher during the 5th century BC. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. He founded the Academy, an academic program that many consider being the first Western university.In this episode professor, Ron Cline gives us a little bit of introduction to 5th century Ancient Greece, Plato, and Socrates. Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this final episode of the US Constitution, Erick Nganyange and Professor Ron Cline are discussing the Bill of Rights,  and Amendments 11 - 27 of the US Constitution.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this episode, Erick Nganyange and Professor Ron Cline continue their discussion of the US Constitution. The discussion is on  Articles 2-7.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In this episode, Erick Nganyange and Professor Ron Cline discusses preamble and article one of the US constitution.Article 1 of the constitution is clear in terms of the power and functions of the congress and how should congress behave.   Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In late 1786, a total of 77 delegates were invited to gather in Philadelphia in May 1787. These delegates were authorized by the Continental Congress and had a singular objective: to revise the Articles of Confederation. The designated date for the meeting was May 14th, 1787. However, due to transportation challenges, only two delegates had arrived in Philadelphia on that day, while the remaining delegates gradually arrived between May 15th and May 24th. By May 24th, a sufficient number of delegates were present to commence the task of revising the Articles of Confederation. James Madison considered the leading figure, initiated the meeting on May 25th, 1787. The gathering took place in a small room now known as Independence Hall, located in Philadelphia.After the agenda of the meeting was fully known, only 55 delegates remained in Philadelphia. 22 delegates decided not to participate. Some left as soon as they realized that the task changed from revising the Articles of Confederation to completely writing a new constitution, which was overthrowing the government. The State of Rhode Island refused to send any delegates to Philadelphia.   The meeting was highly secretive, the public didn't know what those men were up to until it was all done. Some consider what those 55 men did in Philadelphia in 1787 was treason. Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

John Stuart Mill was born on May 20th, 1806, in London. His father James Mill was determined to mold John into a well‐​educated leader. John was given an extremely rigorous education from a young age. He learned Greek at the age of three, Latin at eight, and read Plato’s dialogues in the original language before his tenth birthday.His book "On Liberty"; Published  in 1859, is a plea to find a balance between the state and individual. John Stuart Mill believed individual freedom has to be protected  at all cost and should never be restrained unless there is a threat of a physical harm. He states that “the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In January 1776 Thomas Paine anonymously released a pamphlet called common sense. Common sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and to set up an independent republican government.  Paine's pamphlet was in plain language and it spoke directly to the common people and mass audience in the American colonies.In this episode Professor Ron Cline and Erick Nganyange are discussing common sense pamphlet and the life of Thomas Paine. Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

In 1789  French people overthrew their monarchy and took control of the government. The French revolution was no different than any other revolutions. French people wanted to completely change their social and political system and to create a new system.  Through it all they killed each other at the highest rate and destroyed their way of living.An Englishman, and a political thinker Edmund Burke, was watching the French revolution unfold from a distance. His friend from France wrote  to him inquiring his opinion on the situation. In 1790 Burke gave his opinion on the matter by releasing the book  "Reflection on the revolution in France". Professor Ron Cline and Erick Nganyange are discussing the French Revolution and Edmund Burke.Support the showThank you for listening.You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com