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Sacred and Profane Love
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Sacred and Profane Love
@eudaimoniapod
Philosophy, literature, theology podcast hosted by @jennfrey @HumanEcologyCUA
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omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori
- New episode for patrons coming soon, on Alasdair MacIntyre's, After Virtue. Why? Because (1) it's an amazing book; (2) it made me want to be a philosopher; (3) and it gave me a set of questions I still wrestle with today.
- Every class in my introduction to Aquinas seminar this semester, I give the students more details about Thomas's life and world. Some folks on Twitter expressed interest in threads on the life of Tommaso d'Aquino, so here is what I shared the first day of class🧵 1/18
- "The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations." Iris Murdoch
- "The enjoyment of art is a training in the love of virtue." Iris Murdoch
- "Submission to evil is always accompanied by errors and lies." Simone Weil
- Check out @jennfrey's wide ranging conversation with @AgnesCallard on the Great Books Core, why philosophers should teach Great literature, how to teach Homer in a philosophy class, how humans gain wisdom through mistakes and suffering, and Antigone.
- For those who wish to read ahead, here's what's coming up on the podcast: Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Kierkegaard, The Seducer's Diary Milosz, The Collected Poems Dante, The Divine Comedy David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
- This is the first of three episodes exploring Dante's The Divine Comedy, with Professor @M_Rothaus_Moser in which we discuss Dante's vision of Hell as a place where the truth of one's desires are finally revealed to oneself.
- I am pleased to share a very special episode of Sacred and Profane, our first episode recorded in front of a live audience, and with the amazing @CornelWest at the annual higher education summit in beautiful Annapolis, Maryland!
- "That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is--common decency." Albert Camus, The Plague
- Very excited to be recording with @BaskinJon this morning on David Foster Wallace and the possibility of doing philosophical literary criticism. We'll be talking Cavell, Pippin, Murdoch and the idea that fiction can help us gain self-knowledge.
- It's @CornelWest on James Baldwin, y'all--worthy of your immediate attention. ‘Sacred and Profane Love Episode 41: James Baldwin is Bringing the Fire with Dr. Cornel West’ on #SoundCloud #np soundcloud.com/sacredandprofa…
- Would you like to read and discuss Flannery O'Connor with our host @jennfrey? Starting this Sunday, she will lead a six part series with @interintellect_ on the life and work of O'Connor. You can sign up here: interintellect.com/series/america…
