RJ Snell's guest appearances

RJ Snell

The Thomistic Institute

The Catholic Culture Podcast

Building the Impossible Dream: The History of Zionism

David Gordon

Ann McElhinney

Daniel Gordis

David Wolpe

Ryan Wilson

Bob Marshall

Dana Gioia

Chris Baker

Anthony Esolen

Gene Wolfe

Elizabeth Lev

Daniel Polisar

Carrie Gress

Maximilian Kolbe

Abby Johnson

OwlTail

Check out our high school offerings at www.tikvahfund.org/hs In our cultural moment, society’s disregard of qualitative reasoning in favor of quantitative analysis–what spiritual master Rene Guenon dubbed “The Reign of Quantity”–has left a gaping hole in issues relating to morality, spirituality, and meaning. In this episode, Dr. Snell discusses questions such as: What is reason in the 21st century? Do the worlds of philosophical reasoning and empirical analysis speak different languages? Can these languages be meaningfully brought into conversation with one another? Where do they exhibit similarities and how do they differ? RJ Snell directs the Center on Ethics and the University at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and is senior fellow at the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. Read more about The Nature of Reason course at:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/468i4ig58yz79vm/The%20Nature%20of%20Reason%20in%20Western%20and%20Jewish%20Thought%20-%20Readers.pdf?dl=0 This course is generously sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation.

Check out our high school offerings at <a href="http://www.tikvahfund.org/hs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tikvahfund.org/hs</a> In our cultural moment, society’s disregard of qualitative reasoning in favor of quantitative analysis–what spiritual master Rene Guenon dubbed “The Reign of Quantity”–has left a gaping hole in issues relating to morality, spirituality, and meaning. In this episode, Dr. Snell discusses questions such as: What is reason in the 21st century? Do the worlds of philosophical reasoning and empirical analysis speak different languages? Can these languages be meaningfully brought into conversation with one another? Where do they exhibit similarities and how do they differ? RJ Snell directs the Center on Ethics and the University at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and is senior fellow at the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. Read more about The Nature of Reason course at: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/468i4ig58yz79vm/The%20Nature%20of%20Reason%20in%20Western%20and%20Jewish%20Thought%20-%20Readers.pdf?dl=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.dropbox.com/s/468i4ig58yz79vm/The%20Nature%20of%20Reason%20in%20Western%20and%20Jewish%20Thought%20-%20Readers.pdf?dl=0</a> This course is generously sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation.

What is Reason? Part 2 - RJ Snell

Once included among the capital sins, acedia has been identified with both sloth and sadness. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, defined it both as "disgust with activity" and “sadness about spiritual good.” Today’s guest, RJ Snell, argues that acedia is the chief spiritual malady of our age, underlying the malaise, nihilism and despair so prevalent in the modern West. Links R.J. Snell, Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in the Empire of Desire https://amzn.to/2xTTBhQ Thomas’s 2015 review of Snell, Acedia and Its Discontents https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1307 Thomas’s 2015 review of Nault, The Noonday Devil https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1283 Forthcoming book: R.J. Snell and Robert P. George, Mind, Heart &amp; Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome https://amzn.to/2zO9Uhk This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio

Once included among the capital sins, acedia has been identified with both sloth and sadness. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, defined it both as "disgust with activity" and “sadness about spiritual good.” Today’s guest, RJ Snell, argues that acedia is the chief spiritual malady of our age, underlying the malaise, nihilism and despair so prevalent in the modern West. Links R.J. Snell, Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in the Empire of Desire <a href="https://amzn.to/2xTTBhQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2xTTBhQ</a> Thomas’s 2015 review of Snell, Acedia and Its Discontents <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1307" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1307</a> Thomas’s 2015 review of Nault, The Noonday Devil <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1283" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/otc.cfm?id=1283</a> Forthcoming book: R.J. Snell and Robert P. George, Mind, Heart &amp; Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome <a href="https://amzn.to/2zO9Uhk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2zO9Uhk</a> This podcast is a production of <a href="http://CatholicCulture.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CatholicCulture.org</a>. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! <a href="http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio</a>

Episode 18: Acedia, the Forgotten Capital Sin--RJ Snell