Erick Nganyange

The Classroom

Education EN ↓ 39 episodes

Welcome to the Class. Here, we'll explore some of the most influential/classic books and documents ever written on political philosophy, Religion, Literature, and more. Most importantly, we will try to understand their modern relevance.  This podcast serves two primary purposes, which I'd like to refer to as my "dual motivations." Firstly, it fulfills a personal and somewhat self-serving objective: to archive all the valuable insights and teachings I've received from my professor Ron Cline.  Secondly, I aim to safeguard Professor Ron's wisdom for not only my benefit but also for yours and that...

Author

Erick Nganyange

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Education

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www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Feb 1, 2026

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Episodes

Letters From a Stoic - Seneca Part 1 01.02.2026

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Introduction To Seneca - (David Greder) 01.10.2025

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Introduction To Stoicism - (David Greder) 31.05.2025

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Professor David Greder gives a little introduction to Stoicism. an area that I have been very interested in. Support the show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Introducing Professor David Greder 30.04.2025

Send us Fan Mail Please join me in welcoming our guest teacher, Professor David Greder from Waldorf University , to The Classroom. Professor Greder teaches philosophy and religion, and today, your humble host (and student!) had the honor of sitting down with him. More conversation to come. Support the show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle - Book III - (Final Episode) 28.02.2025

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Tribute To Professor Ron Cline – 03.12.1944 – 12.18.2024 15.02.2025

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Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle - Book II 31.07.2024

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Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle - Book I 30.06.2024

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Introduction To The Bible - (Guest Teacher Kory Eastvold) 31.03.2024

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Classical Tour (London) 29.02.2024

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

Classical Tour (Paris) 31.01.2024

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

Classical Tour (Rome) 30.11.2023

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

Classical Tour (Athens) 30.09.2023

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

Laches - (Socrates Asks, What is Courage?) 31.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

Civil Disobedience - (Henry David Thoreau) 28.05.2023

Send us Fan Mail 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 justi...

Lysis – (Socrates Asks, What is Friendship?) 28.03.2023

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

Charmides - (Socrates Asks, What is moderation?) 26.02.2023

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@...

Protagoras - (Socrates Asks, Can Virtue Be Taught?) 29.01.2023

Send us Fan Mail 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 show...

Crito - (Do you have the duty to obey all the laws?) 25.12.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening...

The Apology - (Socrates Defends His Life) 27.11.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 int...

Euthyphro - (Socrates asks what is Piety/Holiness?) 25.09.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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, Socra...

A Student Who Became A Teacher - (Plato) 28.08.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 influen...

United States Constitution (Bill of Rights - 27th Amendments) 29.05.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

United States Constitution (Articles 2 - 7) 24.04.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

United States Constitution (Preamble & Article 1) 27.03.2022

Send us Fan Mail 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 show Thank you for listening. You can contact us @: ericknga7@gmail.com

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