Glad you brought up Maurin near the end. Your Maurin Manifesto echoes Seaton's recommendation that we live live out our vocation as courageously as we can. That vocation (as a Christian) emerges from --- and emerge is not quite the right word -- our baptism. Maurin's call to cult, culture, cultivation is essential. And it truly challenges us to live trusting in Providence. How many of the saints tell us that every moment matters and we plug our ears. Let's open our ears. Thanks for another great session!
Excellent episode! Thank you to Larry and to Paul for a great discussion! A note on the term BOURGEOIS: I agree with Paul that this is not a good term to be used among Catholic intellectuals, and I am glad that Larry received this criticism with humility and generosity. It's essentially a Marxist term and we don't need to use their terminology. What next? Are we using "production relations" and "productive forces"? "Class struggle"? No! Adopting their language is capitulation. And overexplaining what we mean by it will not do. But I do understand the need for a term that expresses what is essential in the concept Larry and Balthasar and others want to convey. "Middle-class" is better than "bourgeois" but it still smacks of Marxism and its fascination with "class consciousness." Perhaps something more neutral like "conventionalism," "social conformism," or something like that. I recently heard someone refer to this as "regularly scheduled programming" which I thought it was a fun way to describe it.
Glad you brought up Maurin near the end. Your Maurin Manifesto echoes Seaton's recommendation that we live live out our vocation as courageously as we can. That vocation (as a Christian) emerges from --- and emerge is not quite the right word -- our baptism. Maurin's call to cult, culture, cultivation is essential. And it truly challenges us to live trusting in Providence. How many of the saints tell us that every moment matters and we plug our ears. Let's open our ears. Thanks for another great session!
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Excellent episode! Thank you to Larry and to Paul for a great discussion!
A note on the term BOURGEOIS: I agree with Paul that this is not a good term to be used among Catholic intellectuals, and I am glad that Larry received this criticism with humility and generosity. It's essentially a Marxist term and we don't need to use their terminology. What next? Are we using "production relations" and "productive forces"? "Class struggle"? No! Adopting their language is capitulation. And overexplaining what we mean by it will not do. But I do understand the need for a term that expresses what is essential in the concept Larry and Balthasar and others want to convey. "Middle-class" is better than "bourgeois" but it still smacks of Marxism and its fascination with "class consciousness." Perhaps something more neutral like "conventionalism," "social conformism," or something like that. I recently heard someone refer to this as "regularly scheduled programming" which I thought it was a fun way to describe it.
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Larry Chapp is incorrect to say that XX century was a war of nation states - it was a war of empires. Yoram Hazony has a book on this.
What's the argument? I know Hazony is a conservative, but that's also one of the more interesting thesis' to come out of the marxist tradition.