In addition to that, with the David Brooks: Oh, so as you're speaking, I'm thinking of Kanye west uh, he, he would say my life was going well. Flourishing looks different to everyone, and as humans, we're constantly growing and expanding and to reach a state of flourishing. They aren't just things. How can we actually be it? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. They're particular. They address individual and address potentially every individual in the same way, who is my neighbor was a classical question. Info More info. If you have no connection to the transcendent realm, do you have a chance at being good? The highest good of a thing consists of the good performance of its characteristic function, and the virtue or excellence of a thing consists of whatever traits or qualities enable it to perform that function well. Aquinas: Moral Philosophy | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Think of Cyrus sending the Jews back from exile.) Uh, And so, and then finally the uh, the sweet spot. And I think in some ways, in a different way than when they align themselves with political systems, betray their original uh, original calling. Uh, trend just the evolution of religion and the globalized world. definition, one can answer what constitutes human flourishing as an individual In this first part of the dialogue, David interviews Miroslav about his 2016 book, Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World. We try to ask students now, imagine that you took that are what will be good about this? Uh, religion, certainly um, um, partly because they identify with particular-- particularist projects. David Brooks: But w- would it be accurate to say that the most religions of the world are turning more particularistic? What does it look like? Sometimes I'm despairing a little bit. Not simply not on the, on the creation of wealth, but on the ability to distribute the wealth in any kind of a fair way. I think we have a challenge of how to make fruitful for our lives together just such inhabiting of particular religious or secular traditions in a way that can make for peace of living, living together and contributes to something, something robust-- robust discussion, and therefore improve the relations between and enrich the traditions. future vaccines and remedy. David Brooks: Yeah. That's fine. And there are these rich traditions of thinking about what it means for circumstances to be right; what it means to inhabit for instance, a just, and peaceful social order, there are whole traditions of thinking of what does righteousness actually mean? We were at the time of Neibur's we were in a uh, country that was an indeed in the kind of, not just country, but uh, but the Western world that was still uh, though nominally culturally in a significant, to a significant degree, of degree, Christian. Reviews are cool because they'll help like-minded people get an idea for what we're all about, and what's most meaningful to you, our listeners. greatly caused by the number of populationwill be difficult to cure as 17 views, 0 likes, 0 loves, 4 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Community Covenant Church: Sunday Live Stream - April 30, 2023 His subject areas include philosophy, law, social science, politics, political theory, and religion. In next week's follow up, Miroslav and David discuss his 2015 book The Road to Character. For Aristotle, eudaimonia is the highest human good, the only human good that is desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end).
