Ep 121/122 Aftershow on Augustine feat. James Wetzel
Summary: Haven't had enough Augustine? Host Danny Lobell and Wes Alwan reflected on our recent discussions on Augustine's Confessions, with an actual Augustine scholar, <a href="https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/philosophy/people/facstaff.html?mail=james.wetzel@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long" target="_blank">James Wetzel</a> of Villanova University, author of such books as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521064813/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521064813&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=KJXBVV3EKYTUYZQJ" target="_blank">Augustine and the Limits of Virtue</a> (2008), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847061966/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1847061966&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=TMLIACPWVTIEG6X4" target="_blank">Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed</a> (2010), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608999459/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1608999459&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=ES7QEPL25OGGEUTB" target="_blank">Parting Knowledge: Essays after Augustine</a> (2013). Also on the call are PEL listeners Terra Leigh Bell, Amogh Sahu, and Scott Anderson.<br> What does it mean to act for the sake of God in Augustine's sense? What is Augustine really trying to do? What's his place in history? Jim says his philosophy is "a Romanized form of Stoicism." The discussion covers humility, love, desire, grief, sex, misogyny, degrees of reality, and how love of God fits in with relating to other people, given that all views of God are "necessarily fictional." (Meaning that by definition, he's infinite and unknowable; see our <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2014/09/01/ep101-maimonides/" target="_blank">episode #101 on negative theology</a>.)<br> This was recorded today (9/6/15), and posted with minimal editing, and shared in full for the first time over the full, public podcast feed. To get in on future Aftershows and other Not School discussions, and to listen to full Aftershows like this on most 2015 episodes and subsequent two-episode runs, <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership-options/" target="_blank">become a PEL Citizen</a>.<br> Watch it:<br><br> <br><br> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc__061N_KkZp4kG1S5ABCeN-xj1x1dL3" target="_blank">Watch more Aftershows on YouTube</a>.<br>
