On this episode, I communicate with professor of theology Fritz Bauerschmidt about Graham Greene’s novel, The Coronary heart of the Matter. We talk about the ethical psychology of sin, and the way it’s that human beings are in a position to knowingly act in opposition to their very own good (on this case: knowingly and deliberatively select their very own everlasting damnation). How can somebody discover what’s evil good? The reply on this case is a deft exploration of the interaction between pleasure and pity, self-deception and self-conceit.
As all the time, I hope you take pleasure in our dialog!
Frederick C. Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola College Maryland. He’s the writer of many books, together with The Love That Is God: An Invitation to Christian Religion, 2020, Catholic Theology: An Introduction, 2017, Thomas Aquinas: Religion, Motive and Following Christ. Oxford, 2013, and Holy Educating: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas, 2005. You’ll be able to observe him on Twitter @BauerschmidtC
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 college 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 college 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 revealed broadly 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, along with her husband, six kids, and 6 chickens. You’ll be able to observe her on Twitter @jennfrey.
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Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast by 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 which 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.
Audio Edited & Music Produced by Anthony Monson
