Quiet misanthropy vs. Christian humanism
Bishop Robert Barron explores the misanthropic and inherently unstable anthropology at the heart of the modern university and offers an alternative for human flourishing. (46 minutes)
The destructive perils of speech without a real partner
Josef Pieper and Marc Barnes on how chatbots pervert the nature of conversation
The corruption of the word and the displacement of reality
Josef Pieper on the devastating effects of manipulative speech
Festivity and the goodness of Creation
Drawing on Josef Pieper’s ideas, Ken Myers explains why the spirit of festivity is the spirit of worship, and that “entertainment” is ultimately an artificial, contrived, and empty effort to achieve festivity. (25 minutes)
The fountainhead from which perversions gush
Josef Pieper on how refusing to acknowledge the spiritual core of our true nature leads to a “roaming restlessness of the spirit”
Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”
Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)