Suffering, Sacrifice, and Leadership | Prof. Joseph McInerney

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on November 23, 2020 to the United States Military Academy - West Point.

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About the Speaker:

Captain Joe McInerney is the Chairman of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and Permanent Military Professor of Applied Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Captain McInerney lectures in the Naval Academy’s core ethics course, which is offered to all Third Class Midshipman (sophomores) at the Naval Academy and teaches elective courses in the fields of Christian morality and leadership. In 2016, Captain McInerney published his first book, The Greatness of Humility: St. Augustine on Moral Excellence. Captain McInerney served as a Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy for the 2008-2009 academic year. He graduated from The Catholic University of America with a doctorate in systematic theology in October 2012 after completing a dissertation on the moral thought of St. Augustine. Captain McInerney also holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Pontifical Lateran University.

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0:00.0	What I want to do is obviously talk about this idea of suffering and leadership.
0:04.3	And I've been doing some reading on the background of this.
0:07.7	And I actually want to just start with this idea.
0:11.1	And, you know, on the page are two thinkers here.
0:14.6	On the right is Dr. Victor Frankel, who some of you may be familiar with.
0:19.0	He wrote a very famous book, Manse Search for
0:21.1	Meaning, which is based on his experience in the Nazi concentration camps. And in that book,
0:29.5	he quotes Fyodor Dostoevsky, who's on the left. So I got to show both guys to give him
0:35.8	credit. And Dostoevsky said, there's only one thing that I dread not to be worthy of my suffering.
0:42.1	And I read that and I was like, wow, I thought that was an awesome quote.
0:47.4	I'm really not sure what it means, but it sounds really deep.
0:51.4	So I thought I'd start out with that.
0:53.3	It's kind of say, hey, there's some
0:54.6	death to this to this notion of suffering that we're going to talk about, especially as we link it to
0:58.8	leadership. But it's not clear. It's murky. And so I want to kind of go on a bit of an exploration
1:05.8	with all of you. And this is definitely very much in the context of the Christian intellectual
1:10.6	tradition. And so whenever we start in the context of the Christian intellectual tradition.
1:11.7	And so whenever we start in that context, we should always turn to scripture.
1:16.4	And so here's just a quick quote from John's Gospel.
1:22.2	And, you know, what it implies in, you know, in the, both in the picture and in the citation,
1:28.6	is this idea that, one, you know, in the Christian tradition, Christ, the way he accomplishes
1:35.0	his mission is actually through leadership and that Christ leads and he also suffers and that
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