What Will Your Legacy Be? Can Simply Considering Your Legacy Change the Culture?

Through the lens of legacy: looking at societal connection from the perspective of what we leave, when we leave.

This week’s death of Pat Quinn, one of the co-founders of the “ice bucket challenge” to raise funds for and awareness of ALS, prompts our show today.

Mostly, we live as though we will always be here. Lack of awareness of our limitations, including the limitation of finite time, leads to mischief—often in the form of some kind of selfishness.

Does recognition of finitude always lead to deeper compassion? Does being aware that we will leave a legacy, always lead to moral action that will bear fruit? Or do we need a vision of the good, that directs our actions and our legacy? 

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 foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.

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