On this episode, I communicate with Dr. Kevin Kambo about Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, in gentle of an essay by Louise Cowan titled “The Tragic Abyss.” Cowan argues that tragedy is “a liturgical confrontation of a deep seated dread which, when delivered to gentle, could be borne solely by way of the medium of poetic language.” We talk about the character of the tragic, which at all times includes a second of “unmasking” and a peering into the darkish abyss; we talk about what tragic knowledge is and the way you possibly can probably acquire it; and we attempt to grapple with the query of how our grasp of the tragic modifications after we shift our perspective from Athens to Jerusalem.
As at all times, I hope you get pleasure from our dialog.
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Kevin Kambo is an assistant professor of philosophy at Hope Faculty in Michigan. He’s an knowledgeable within the historical past of philosophy, with specific curiosity in ethical psychology within the classical and patristic eras. His current work focuses on Plato and Augustine of Hippo, in addition to with bringing historical sources to bear in up to date debates on the natures and roles of expertise and liberal training in human life. He’s presently engaged on a mission on Plato’s Phaedo on the assorted meanings of loss of life and the way the follow of philosophy is a preparation for dealing with one’s demise. You may comply with him on Twitter @mythwright.
Jennifer Frey is an affiliate Professor of Philosophy on the College of South Carolina and fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology on the Catholic College of America. Previous to becoming a member of the philosophy school at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities on the College of Chicago, the place she was a member of the Society of Fellows within the Liberal Arts and an affiliated school within the philosophy division. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy on the College of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Research (with a Classics minor) at Indiana College, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has printed extensively on motion, advantage, sensible motive, and meta-ethics, and has not too long ago co-edited an interdisciplinary quantity, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has additionally been featured in Breaking Floor, First Issues, Fare Ahead, Picture, Regulation and Liberty, The Level, and USA As we speak. She lives in Columbia, SC, together with her husband, six kids, and 6 chickens. You may comply with her on Twitter @jennfrey.
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Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast through which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics talk about a few of their favourite works of literature, and the way these works have formed their very own concepts about love, happiness, and that means in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is affiliate professor of philosophy on the College of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology on the Catholic College of America and produced by Catholics for Rent.
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