You Are Not Enough
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Everyone wants to be happy--so why are so many people miserable? That's the simple question that the early Christian bishops posed to the canonical authors of the Greco-Roman world. It's also the question that kicks off Spencer's new series on the "theological virtues," or the Christian contribution to the classical philosophy of ethics. Using the basic experiences of everyday life, Spencer makes the practical case for--*gasp!*--going beyond Aristotle.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Young Heretics where the inspiring message for this week is, |
| 0:05.0 | You are not enough. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, I know you guys, you come to me for encouragement, inspiration, words of wisdom from |
| 0:21.0 | Antiquity in the great men of the past and this really is one of them. |
| 0:27.0 | You are not enough and there's a kind of ubiquitous modern saying that you are enough. |
| 0:35.0 | This is like one of the classic little bro minds that you get on those cute |
| 0:38.8 | Instagram placards with the starry sky behind it or the like fall leaves or the pumpkin spice |
| 0:45.5 | latte or whatever you guys know what I'm talking about if you scroll any social |
| 0:49.3 | media site you've seen this thing you are enough And my reaction to that is always like enough, enough for what? Me? I'm not, what am I enough for? I feel that if I am enough, then my destiny is extremely depressing. |
| 1:06.4 | And I've said some of this before as we've been talking about the virtues for weeks and |
| 1:10.4 | weeks that if you're perfect as you are, if everything that you are right now is enough to, you know, |
| 1:17.0 | triumph in the world, then there better be some kind of like hidden door inside my soul with more of those things in a library |
| 1:25.2 | where it looks like there's a bunch of books but actually you press a secret |
| 1:28.0 | panel and look there are wonders untold behind the secret chamber like what's behind |
| 1:32.0 | door number five because if that's not going on I am not enough and that is going to be the point and got the governing theme of the next part of this series on virtues which is about the theological |
| 1:45.4 | virtues or as I've sometimes been calling them the Christian virtues we took a |
| 1:49.6 | little break we talked about quantum physics we talked about some of your questions. We will do other |
| 1:54.9 | topics besides just virtue going forward but I want to dive back in here and |
| 1:59.6 | pick up where we left off which was at the end of our series on the cardinal virtues |
| 2:04.6 | those are the four if you like pagan virtues or virtues from Greco-Roman |
| 2:09.3 | Antiquity they really have their source in Plato's Republic and we discussed those at length |
| 2:14.4 | and where that comes from and I've been hinting all along that when you talk about |
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