What Do Walt Whitman, James Mattis, and St. Augustine All Have In Common? Season Two Retrospective
Season 2, Episode 248, Jun 18, 2020, 08:53 AM
Season Two comes to a close. We look back, and then ahead to Season Three.
Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing movement of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.
In short, we want to create a community that is grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.
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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:
00:45 How is it helpful to reframe the way we see the world, using the lenses of philosophy and theology?
02:00 Listen again to our shows with Kathleen McTeague, which aired in late January and early February 2020. What makes solidarity a religious value?
04:23 What do Walt Whitman, Jim Mattis, and St. Augustine of Hippo all have in common? What is mutual affection in a society? How would we know that we were in such a society?
09:15 Our interview with Jeff MacDonald: why is religion covered so poorly in the mainstream media? Listen to our conversation with Jeff, which was aired on January 9th and January 16th, 2020.
10:44 What is the secular immanent frame? Is this what we all know that we all know? What do we lose, when we lose the transcendent? Our shows on awe and wonder were December 12 and December 19, 2019
14:13 Culture is habits of mind and patterns of behavior. What habits and patterns do we unthinkingly, unreflectively accept, that really need a fresh look?
16:22 Look for new old shows over the summer! We are so grateful for your support, as together we aim to be curious, go deep, and shine light.