WOF 258: Ideas Have Consequences: The Philosophers that Shaped 2020 (Part 2)

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today we hear the second half of Bishop Barron's recent talk to the Knights of Malta, in which he explains that behind much of the rioting and deep unrest in our country 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.

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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
0:11.6	at Word on Fire. Today we're going to pick up on a series we began a couple weeks ago.
0:16.9	We shared the first half of Bishop Robert Barron's talk to the Knights of Malta. That
0:22.1	talk was titled Ideas Have Consequences, the philosophers that shaped 2020. In that talk he looked
0:30.0	at four major thinkers whose ideas have shaped the culture that we currently find ourselves in,
0:36.0	especially the convulsions that reverberate through rioting, accusations, scapegoating, violence,
0:42.7	and the deep unrest in many of our streets and cities. The four thinkers are Karl Marx, Friedrich
0:49.7	Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. In the previous episode we looked at Marx and Nietzsche.
0:56.8	So if you miss that you might want to go back. I think it's episode 256. But in this episode we're
1:02.2	going to share the second half of Bishop Barron's talk which focuses on Sartre and Foucault. So sit
1:07.9	back and enjoy the rest of Bishop Barron's talk titled Ideas Have Consequences.
1:19.1	And with that I want to move to this third figure. So the first two Germans from the 19th century,
1:24.4	the next two are Frenchmen from the 20th century. And the first is probably the most famous
1:30.0	philosopher of the 20th century. Probably most of us in at least philosophy 101 would have had
1:36.1	some exposure to this figure. I'm talking about Jean Paul Sartre. Now Sartre was very influenced
1:45.6	by Nietzsche. Nietzsche's impact on the 20th century is enormous. Think of his influence on
1:50.8	someone like Martin Heidegger and all those that come out of the Heideggerian school. But his
1:56.1	influence on the two I'll look at next, Sartre and Foucault was enormous. A bit about Jean Paul Sartre.
2:04.3	Born in Paris in 1905, he studies at the Ecole Normale Superior, the Superior Normal School.
2:15.4	That was about 10 minutes from the house that I lived in when I was a doctoral student in Paris.
2:21.0	It's the cream of the crop of the French intellectual system, the education system. So the best and
2:29.0	brightest figures in the 20th century tended to be what they call normalian, normalians,
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