Christian Humanist Profiles 248: Valerie Tiberius

May 01, 2023 00:53:01
Christian Humanist Profiles 248: Valerie Tiberius
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 248: Valerie Tiberius

May 01 2023 | 00:53:01

/

Hosted By

Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

Philoctetes is not the best-known Sophocles tragedy, but its questions stick with me.  When the title character insists on his dignity as a man of war, he runs afoul of the Odysseus of Sophocles, who could not care less about the wounded warrior’s sense of being wronged, so he enlists Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who insists that abstract virtues of war must govern everything that concerns the struggle.  I won’t spoil the ending of Philoctetes today, but I will say that conflicting values have not become any less interesting in the two and a half millennia since.  Dr. Valerie Tiberius has brought that conversation off the mythological battlefield and into the very real tensions between money and reputation and peace of mind and different kinds of abstract principles in her recent book What Do You Want out of Life, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome her to the show.

Other Episodes

Episode

November 25, 2024 00:48:23
Episode Cover

Christian Humanist Profiles 261: Phillip Cary

My own tradition within the Church was an early adopter of the motto “No creed but Christ.”  For what intentions are worth, my forerunners...

Listen

Episode

February 05, 2018 01:04:17
Episode Cover

Christian Humanist Profiles 127: The New Testament

Nathan Gilmour interviews David Bentley Hart about his new translation of the New Testament.

Listen

Episode

August 27, 2018 00:59:17
Episode Cover

Christian Humanist Profiles 140: Rachel Marie

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Rachel Marie about her recent album "False Foundations."

Listen