The Flow of Sympathy with Dr. Chad Pecknold

The Catholic Man Show

Leisure, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What is the flow of sympathy? Adam and Dr. Chad Pecknold enjoy a drink and discuss friendship, St. Augustine, the flow of sympathy, and masculinity.

Highlights:

Friendship
St. Augustine
The Flow of Sympathy
Making your heart an altar
What translation to use when reading The Confessions

You can find more of Dr. Chad Pecknold's work at The Postliberal Order.

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0:00.0	Dr. Peknell, thank you so much for hanging out and sharing a drink and a conversation with me today.
0:06.7	It's going to be a lot of fun.
0:07.4	Yeah, thank you.
0:08.5	I think that I cannot go without talking about Augustine with you being here.
0:15.2	Yeah.
0:15.6	I think that would be a remiss if I did.
0:18.9	One of the talks that we give sometimes on friendship is I use Augustine as a model in friendship
0:26.0	and the importance of friendship.
0:27.7	Because, you know, in confessions, he comes out and he's with his buddies when he's young,
0:33.2	and they're at the pear tree and he steals that pair just for the sake of really stealing it, right?
0:38.0	Exactly.
0:39.1	And he's kind of like, because everybody around him is doing it, he feels compelled to do it.
0:44.6	Yeah.
0:45.7	And then, years later, he gets, well, he gets surrounded by Manichias and Dautus and all these other people that pull them into different things.
0:56.3	But then it gets introduced to St. Ambrose.
1:00.2	And then it pulls him that way.
1:03.0	Can you maybe talk about just the importance of friendship with Augustine,
1:06.6	like how those trials and how friendship played such a pivotal role in his life?
1:12.6	It's interesting because, you know, I think, you know, we tend to think that we're kind of sovereign in our choosings, like that we, we're going to, I mean, it's true in one level that every one of our
1:29.6	choices were responsible for. But Augustine in the Confessions is very, very attentive to
1:36.4	what he calls the flow of sympathy. It's a really, really important idea. Like, when people start nodding with one another, that's the flow of sympathy. It's a really, really important idea. Like, when people start nodding with one another,
1:47.4	that's the flow of sympathy. Like, you just nodded. I just nodded to me. Like that,
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