Understanding the Present Moment #4 (Michel Foucault)
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Published 2022-08-29
The ideologies undergirding much of the unrest in our culture stem from these four thinkers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Once we understand these figures and their key ideas, we will recognize them everywhere and be prepared to engage today’s challenges.
In today’s fourth and final discussion, we focus on Michel Foucault, perhaps the least known of the four but maybe the one with the greatest direct impact on the way many in our culture think today.
A listener asks, how do we understand God as bring if he’s both Father and Son?
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All Comments (21)
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Because of this series, I have enrolled into the Hillsdale College philosophy class. I haven't taken philosophy since 2015 (my first year of college at 45). Thank you for the enlightenment on these men.
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I really appreciated this and the positive approach to seeing the good points of what many are inevitably going to see as the enemy. But there are truths in these philosophers works even if their conclusion are wrong and ultimately damaging. The church will overcome and be stronger for it.
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Looking forward to this one. I've listened to the ones for Marx, Nietzsche, and Sartre and now this is the conclusion of the series. Very informative!
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I am so grateful for this series of discussions. Foucault seems to be the most influential of the thinkers who lead to despair.
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Thanks again for your work and You tube clips. Not Catholic yet but your work is drawing many to or back to the universal church.
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Fabulous linkage of Foucault Nietzsche, Marx & Freud. Thankyou for clearing that up Bishop
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I just wish this conversations were longer. Half an hour is still too little for these four philosophers. Michael asked an excellent question. Maybe Bp. Barron could do several videos about the Trinity.
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Dear Bishop!Barron this series, truly gave me more insights on how to react to the assault of so much " name calling, and crude remarks" in social media. THIS OPENED MY MIND TO BEING A CHRISTIAN IN THE PRSENT MOMENT, BY UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHEOLOGY OF IDEAS".
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I’d like to hear Bishop Barron discuss Heidegger.
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Thanks WOF for doing this 4 part series!
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Thank you Bishop Barron! God bless you!
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The cult of Foucault and his perverse ideology was highly celebrated and prevalent in the public university I attended (2013-2018). Foucault's legitimazation or academization of these ideas is troubling. I was called out a mysogynist and elitist for "daring" to quote Plato or Voltaire during our in-class debates. Remindeds me today of the verse: " Whosoever shall misled my children..."
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Thanks Bishop Baron for helping us emerge “from our intellectual ghettos”😏
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Great, Bishop Barron, that you mention that Foucault went to Uppsala (in 1955-1958)! His most formative years.
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The French philosophers have really done a number on us
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The irony is that people who see everything through the lens of power are the most terrifying when they do get into positions of power.
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I told when someone lovely people bring me LOVE others gave me work to back their Hearts at the fluential God's LOVE
