Modules
- Model I: Introduction
- Introduction and Fundamentals lecture
- (no homework, but plan on taking detailed notes on this lecture and participating in discussion).
- This week’s lecture recording: https://youtu.be/u_lEqnIkvbk
- Module II: Birth of Modernity: 16th-18th c.
- RoE: Birth of Modernity
- RoE: The Enlightenment
- Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”
- This week’s lecture recording: https://youtu.be/BdL_8kMHcxQ
- Module III: Models for History 19th-20th c.
- Hegel, a very short introduction
- RoE: The Faustian Age
- RoE: Origins and Ideals of the Secular State
- This week’s lecture recording: https://youtu.be/E5ZmRal5Ji4
- Module IV: The Secular State
- Mussolini
- Marx
- on Liberalism
- This week’s lecture recording: https://youtu.be/L2lFIWMctMA
- Module V: Late Modernity and the 21st c.
- RoE: Collapse of Secularism
- RoE: Techno-Paganism’s New Religions
- Cumulative oral exam
- This week’s lecture recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnSRftiertA
Logistics
Dates: 26 Aug 2025 through 23 Sept 2025.
Length of course: 5 weeks
Time: 3:00pm Pacific Time
Class length: 3-4 hours with a break halfway.
Required Texts
None. All assignments will be PDFs and videos distributed by the professor (everything is linked bove in the “Modules” section)
Instructor
Zachary Porcu is the author of Journey to Reality and the host of the podcast The Roots of Everything. He earned his PhD in Church History at the Catholic University of America and holds additional degrees in Philosophy, History, and Classics. He has taught at private schools and universities on both the East and West coasts and is a catechist at St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church in Riverside, CA. You can follow his work at zacharyporcu.substack.com.
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