Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

A podcast about the ideas that shape our lives. Hosted by Zachary Davis and produced at Harvard Divinity School.Learn more at ministryofideas.org

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Ministry of Ideas

Episodes (88)

Dec 20, 2023 Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
Dec 13, 2023 Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence
Dec 6, 2023 Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist

Ministry of Ideas

Dec 20, 2023
44¼ minutes
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The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the period some historians identify as the beginning of the modern age. American author and philosopher David Foster Wallace worked more than two centuries later, in the “post-modern” style. But these two writers shared a common problem: once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality? This episode looks at how Johnson and Wallace attempted to solve this problem; what struggles plagued their solutions; and why our modern, pluralistic landscape makes their work more valuable than ever. <...

Ministry of Ideas

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me

Zachary Davis

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