{"id":14669,"date":"2021-08-17T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T12:46:56","slug":"episode-448-elisabeth-lasch-quinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-448-elisabeth-lasch-quinn","title":{"rendered":"Episode 448 – Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 448:
\nElisabeth Lasch-Quinn<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The cultivation of the inner life is a way of looking at the self as though the inner sanctum isn’t a lonely, isolating chamber of echoes, but can be transformed into a rich inner garden.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>With Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living<\/a> (Notre Dame Press), Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn<\/a> explores how different philosophies of the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to play out in our modern era. We talk about the interplay between antiquity & modernity, how we can learn to move beyond therapeutic culture, and why she’s a born Platonist (the book also gets into Gnosticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Cynicism). We also get into why instrumentalizing people is one of the worst developments of our time, what it means to have an authentic outward-facing inwardness, rather than the inward-facing outwardness of our age, whether philosophy prepares us for death (and whether it should). Plus we discuss how students have & haven’t changed over her 30 years as a professor, the vale of WikiHow, the moment she was entranced by a philosophy seminar titled “Love”, and what virtue is & whether it can be taught. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Ars Vitae<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“In Platonism we can find a way to renew our sense of why on earth we would ever want to act virtuously or good, or restrict our desires, or think about someone other than ourselves. That’s what’s missing from our times, what’s fallen away in the modern therapeutic consumer culture.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n