Alexandra Hudson on Classics and Civility

In this episode, I chat with Alexandra Hudson, writer, popular speaker, founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth, and author of The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves, a forthcoming book from St. Martin’s Press.

Highlights

• What Lexi’s newsletter, Civic Renaissance, is about

• The central message of her new book, The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves

• What is the difference between civility and politeness? 

• Why classics are still important today

• Whether you need a philosophy or classics degree to benefit from classical wisdom

• What's happened to civility today?  How can we restore civil discourse?

• About Lexi’s Storytelling and the Human Condition elearning course

• What can great stories across different cultures tell us about our lives?

Links

• Civic Renaissance with Alexandra Hudson

• Alexandra Hudson

• The Soul of Civility on Macmillan’s website