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- The roots of “the indignant self-righteousness of protest” in modern politics
Alasdair MacIntyre on why unmasking nefarious motives became “one of the most characteristically modern of activities” - How the Enlightenment blinded us
Alasdair MacIntyre on the dependence of rationality on a lived tradition - It takes a character (and a village)
Herbert McCabe, O.P. on the Aristotelian, Thomistic, and MacIntyrean account of the moral life - Awakening before what is great
Romano Guardini on the proper posture of one in the presence of greatness - An ancient liturgical form
Calvin Stapert on the long history of recounting Christ’s sufferings musically
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Classicist and philosopher Paul Woodruff (1943–2023) discusses the importance of reverence as a virtue that enriches relationships, elevates civic life, and helps leaders to wield power wisely. Though practices and behaviors vary from culture to culture, Woodruff argues that reverence is a universal and pre-religious virtue that permeates every aspect of our lives. It begins in the home, as families engage in small “ceremonies” — traditions that communicate honor for each family member and for the family as a whole. Woodruff examines the reasons for and consequences of modernity’s value of irreverence, and he offers distinctions between reverence, faith, and justice. Finally, he explains the place and power of reverence in art, music, poetry, hospitality, and education. Woodruff is the author of Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue(Oxford University Press, 2002).
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Guests on Volume 164
- DANA GIOIA, curator of Sentences of Seneca, on Seneca’s practical wisdom
- BRADY STILLER, author of Your Life Is a Story: G. K. Chesterton and the Paradox of Freedom, on the grand cosmic story
- ROBERT ROYAL discusses Romano Guardini’s The World and the Person and Other Writings
- RICHARD DECLUE, author of The Mind of Benedict XVI: A Theology of Communion, on the former pope’s priority on relationality
- TIFFANY SCHUBERT, author of Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism: Courtly Love and Happy Endings, on 18th-century cultural superiority
- JOONAS SILDRE, author of Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language, on illustrating Pärt’s music