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Well, on behalf of Roaston College and the Cambridge University, I would like to thank

you for the study of Platonism. It's an immense honor to introduce two of the foremost intellectuals

of our age. These thinkers, Warner philosopher, the other as psychologists, are spiritual writers

addressing the malaise of the soul in our culture. John Stuart Mill, in his magnificent essay

on Colourage, wrote of Bentham, Jeremy Bentham, who above all others, men have been led to

ask themselves in regard to any ancient or received opinion, is it true? And by Colourage,

what is the meaning? With Colourage, in contrast to the utility of Bentham, the very fact

that any doctrine had been believed by thoughtful men and received by whole nations and

generations of mankind was part of the problem to be solved, was one of the phenomena to

be accounted for. This, I think, is true of both Roger Scruton and Jordan Peterson.

And I'd like to mention just a couple of points of convergence. Warner's an insistence

on the importance of imagination as conversion to truth in opposition to a mere fantasy.

And an opposition to ideology, as well as ideology, especially the idolatrous ideology

of the post-modern, for-call-derived consensus, and an urgent return to questions about truth,

beauty and goodness. And of course, part of this is linked to what both perceive as the

perilous position of the modern university. They both argue that continuity of esteem

needs to be regained in the humanities, and that the dominant strands of the humanities

are leading to an impoverishment of the souls of students. Narratives, both argue, are not

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