Get to know the Beatrice Institute podcast hosts, Ryan McDermott and Grant Martsolf, as they take turns interviewing each other. In this wide-ranging conversation, Ryan and Grant explore utilitarian tendencies in higher education, what religious institutes can offer a university community, and the relationship between immortality and incorruptibility. Ryan plays “would you rather” with Grant, and they meditate on two differing apocalyptic views of history.
“Nursing is the gentle art of caring”: teaching nurses not to be utilitarian
John Rawls’s theory of justice is an Enlightenment fantasy
Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” is impossible because culture always invades the hospital
A substantial portion of patient outcomes depends on what happens after they’re discharged
Beatrice Institute gets “butts in seats” in humanities classes
Learning more about your religion in college makes you more likely to practice it into adulthood
Intellectual friendship desires the other to succeed in the quest for truth, goodness, and beauty
A twenty-first-century research university is here to maximize benefit as understood according to a liberal, capitalist order
Today’s community health nurse is the closest thing we have to the nineteenth-century doctor who abided with a family in their joys and sufferings
Historical humanities help us understand the unfolding of human history across time
The basic plot of the Bible is like a Jane Austen novel: it begins with conflict and breakdown of social relations but ends with reconciliation and marriage
Forget the Benedict Option, we need to return to the days of the early Church, when there just lay people, a few priests, a few deacons, the occasional bishop, and families
Incorruptible bodies are simultaneously participating in the resurrection and in this world that is passing away
Modernity gives people technical skills but not the vision of the good those technical skills should serve
What does a social order that promotes human flourishing look like?
If health is just not dying and not aging, then immortality is the telos
What goodness and beauty will flourish when what we know collapses and something new is born?
Links
Tropologies: Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350-1600 by Ryan McDermott
“Integrating Political Philosophy into Health Policy Education”
“What Makes Faith Stick During College?”
“The No. 1 Reason Teens Keep the Faith as Young Adults”
East Liberty Family Health Care Center
Genealogies of Modernity Journal
“Ryan McDermott Receives $300K from National Endowment for the Humanities”
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Walker Percy and the Modern Search for the Self with Jessica Hooten Wilson
"Q and A with The Lighthouse Author Michael D. O’Brien"
Fourth Lateran Council: 1215 (see Canon 50)
“Genealogies in Motion: Trees of Consanguinity”
“Hundreds of Years of Data Growing on Trees”
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O’Brien
“Benedict’s Creative Minority”
“Salt and Light: Creative Christian Minorities in an Age of Upheaval”
Sophia House by Michael D. O’Brien
“The Touching History Behind Rose of No Man’s Land Tattoos”