WOF 256: Ideas Have Consequences: The Philosophers that Shaped 2020 (Part 1)

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🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In a recent talk given to the Knights of Malta, Bishop Barron addressed this convulsive time in our national history, demonstrated by the global pandemic, unstable politics, and outbursts of violence. What he shows is that behind much of the rioting and deep unrest stand ideas stemming from four influential thinkers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Once we understand some of their most basic ideas, we will recognize their influence everywhere today.

In today's episode, we share the first half of the talk (the second half will be coming soon).

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director
0:10.6	at Word on Fire. Today we're going to be sharing a talk that Bishop Robert Barron recently
0:15.4	gave to the Knights of Malta. His talk was titled, Ideas Have Consequences, The Philosophers
0:22.5	That Shaped 2020. You don't need me to tell you that our culture is going through a
0:28.1	convulsive period. You can look around and see all the riding, the accusation, the scapegoating,
0:34.3	the violence, the deep unrest we find both online and offline. We might do well not to focus so much
0:41.6	on these events in themselves but to step back and ask where did these things come from? What ideas
0:47.9	produce these results? And that's the point of Bishop Barron's talk. He focuses in on four thinkers
0:54.1	who have had a profound impact on shaping the world that we're currently confronting. The four
0:59.7	thinkers are Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault. In his talk,
1:07.7	he looks at each of these four thinkers. However, we're going to share the first half of that talk
1:13.1	today. So we'll focus on Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche today and then the next episode we'll
1:18.9	look at Sartre and Foucault. So sit back and enjoy the first half of this talk titled Ideas
1:24.9	Have Consequences, The Philosophers That Shaped 2020. Enjoy.
1:35.6	Well, it's my pleasure to address the Knights of Malta at your National Gathering. You're a group
1:40.1	that I've admired over the years. So thank you for your invitation. You know, in recent weeks and
1:46.4	months as our country goes through this convulsive time, I can't tell you how many people have asked me,
1:52.7	Bishop, what is going on? How do you explain what's happening on our streets? What's happening with
2:00.9	the rhetoric people are using? What's going on in our culture? Well, there have been all kinds of
2:05.8	analyses, you know, political and economic and sociological. But you know, by training and instinct,
2:12.0	I'm a philosopher. And philosophers always ask the fundamental questions. I think to understand
2:18.9	what's going on, we have to put on our philosophers' caps. And so what I want to do with you in the
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