Antigone & Tragic Poets with Dr. Jim Madden

The Catholic Man Show

Leisure, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jim Madden, Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College, joins us to discuss Antigone and Tragic Poets.

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What can we learn about Antigone?
Can we learn anything from tragic poems?
What does secularization tell us in today's world?
Is what we are going through today considered historically novel?

If you plan on reading Antigone, we recommend this translation.

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0:00.0	Okay, we're here with Jim Madden. He's the professor at Benedictine College Philosophy Professor.
0:05.5	I've actually wanted to talk to you for quite a while.
0:08.9	Ever since we had Pat Flynn on, he said, you guys got to get Jim Madden on the show.
0:12.6	So I'm glad we had the opportunity to.
0:15.5	Maybe just kind of open up how long have you been a professor, philosophy?
0:23.7	Let's see, I got my my i finished my degree in 2002 i've been at benedictin since 2003 you know so 20 years i've been teaching there
0:31.1	yeah um uh yeah probably too late to get out of it now. So you're locked in.
0:38.6	I'm locked in, yeah.
0:39.7	Okay, cool.
0:40.4	And what's your abstract going to be about?
0:42.5	So this paper is about Sophocles' tragic drama Antigone.
0:51.6	Oh, yes.
0:52.2	We've both read Antigone.
0:53.3	We've read that.
0:53.8	Yeah, and what it has to teach us about secularization today.
0:58.3	Right.
0:58.5	So I read Antigone as a sort of Bronze Age secularization story.
1:05.0	Right.
1:05.3	Okay.
1:06.5	And it doesn't end well, as you know.
1:10.1	Right.
1:10.4	Right.
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