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Mark and Susanna Spencer are a philosopher and theologian married couple with four kids. They write about the things they love to read.
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Our Series on Man and Woman (opens the original)
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Over the last few years, we have written fourteen posts on the fraught subject of what it means to be a man or a woman. At first, these posts were only available to our paid subscribers, but now we have opened them up so that they are available to everyone. We invite you to read them! See the list of all the topics we’ve covered below the picture—we discuss things like friendship between men and women, <a href="https://livingwithladyphilosophy.substack.com/p
The Allure of Rome (opens the original)
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There’s this internet trend (of which many of you are likely aware) in which one talks about how often one thinks about the Roman Empire. (Thinking about the Roman Republic, or even the pre-republican kingdom, counts too.) Given that ours is a Classical Household, we don’t go much more than a few hours without someone bringing up Ancient Rome. This past year, one of my daughters was reading Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico in her Latin class and another daughter was reading Virgil’s Aeneid; this
The Malleability of Myth (opens the original)
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In The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Callaso compiled many sources of the Greek myths telling them all in a long winding tale. He includes the many different versions of each myth. For example, he explains that in some versions of the myths, Paris and Helen stopped in Egypt, the real Helen was left behind, and a shadow Helen was the one they fought the war over in Troy. Or at the moment of the sacrifice that is meant to make wind for the ships to sail to Troy, Agamemnon’s daughter Iphi
The Future of Living with Lady Philosophy (opens the original)
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We’ve now been writing this Substack for over two years, and we’re deeply grateful to all of you who have been reading our writing! This isn’t a message saying that we’re stopping the Substack—we intend to continue writing Living with Lady Philosophy hopefully for many years to come; indeed, there are some good new posts coming soon. Susanna has a review of the film of The Odyssey, with reference to Roberto Calasso, coming very soon. Mark will have a piece next week on the allure and aesthetic o
The Curious Disconnect between Moral Courage and Intellectual Brilliance (opens the original)
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Going back at least to Plato, one finds an intuition that, at least on the surface, is pretty plausible. This is the intuition that greater moral virtue is linked to greater understanding of the truth and a deeper sense of beauty. There’s a deep plausibility to this intuition. Truth, goodness, and beauty are, many have argued, properties of being: the more something shares in being itself (or, on some views, the more one participates in God, the being that is being itself), the more one shares i
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