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151 – The God of This Lower World
Manage episode 407714730 series 2154970
What is the single most important virtue for a leader to possess? What quality can make the run-of-the-mill politician into a statesman? Is it integrity, communication skills, resilience, courage, empathy, or wisdom? All of these things are important, of course, and if any are sufficiently lacking we wouldn’t call that a good leader. But what would you say is the chief virtue?
Conservative thinkers from Burke to Kirk to Kristol to Strauss and even many of the ancient and medieval thinkers from Aristotle to Plato to St. Thomas Aquainis identified a single virtue as the chief “political” virtue. A virtue so important that Edmund Burke referred to it as the god of this lower world.
What is that virtue? That’s exactly what Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis explores in this solo episode.
Mentioned in the episode: Saul Alinsky’s interview on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line.
146 episoder
151 – The God of This Lower World
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Manage episode 407714730 series 2154970
What is the single most important virtue for a leader to possess? What quality can make the run-of-the-mill politician into a statesman? Is it integrity, communication skills, resilience, courage, empathy, or wisdom? All of these things are important, of course, and if any are sufficiently lacking we wouldn’t call that a good leader. But what would you say is the chief virtue?
Conservative thinkers from Burke to Kirk to Kristol to Strauss and even many of the ancient and medieval thinkers from Aristotle to Plato to St. Thomas Aquainis identified a single virtue as the chief “political” virtue. A virtue so important that Edmund Burke referred to it as the god of this lower world.
What is that virtue? That’s exactly what Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis explores in this solo episode.
Mentioned in the episode: Saul Alinsky’s interview on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line.
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