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Hard Men Podcast

The Good Man: Masculine Virtue from The Aeneid

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In The Aeneid, Virgil paints a picture of the good man through the story of Aeneas. Having fled after Troy fell to the Greeks, our hero embarks on a journey to plant a city for his son and future generations. In the process, we learn that Aeneas is a good man because he has developed pietas, gravitas, and auctoritas. In this episode, we'll talk about what those virtues are and why they're central to understanding masculinity.Special thanks to this episode's sponsors, Reformation Heritage Book...

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The What is a good man? That's a hard question for most moderns to answer, particularly because they can't even say for sure today what a man

0:25.8

even is.

0:27.5

And if they get to that point, they're equally at a loss, and to answer the question

0:31.6

how you would define good in an atmosphere of

0:34.7

subjectivistic relativism. It's hard to develop a robust philosophy of morality

0:40.7

when you can't grasp basic biology or think beyond your own genitals.

0:47.3

If they did, Moderns, happen to make it past basic anatomy lessons, your average person would probably still define a good man as one

0:57.6

living in true expression of his authentic self, which would likely be rooted in the fulfillment of his pleasures.

1:05.0

What is a good man? We're going to unpack that question in today's episode of the Hard Men

1:10.6

Podcast. Well, welcome back to this episode of The Hardman Podcast.

1:17.0

Well, welcome back to this episode of The Hardman Podcast. I am your host Eric Kahn.

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Very excited that you could be with us for this episode. As always we appreciate our

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So I want to jump in today with something that we've actually talked about in the Kings

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