Virtues and Vices
Katarina Barrling
What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have...
Location:
United States
Description:
What is a virtue and what is a sin? Is it possible to say that our actions are evil or good? Every age and culture have their own answers to these timeless questions. For example, in the Western Protestant tradition, the human body and its desire have been considered to be inherently evil, but that is not a position taken for granted in other cultures. Virtue and sin seem to represent a duality that is as old as humankind. This anthology explores how perceptions of virtues and sins have changed through history. The essays take ancient Greece and Rome as their starting point, move to the early Christian period from St Augustine to Dante, and then on to more recent philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The writers, Swedish as well as international researchers, also touch on everything from Confucian China and ancient India to self-help books, transhumanism and AI as well as the existence or non-existence of human rights. Duration - 6h 12m. Author - Katarina Barrling. Narrator - Justine Harris. Published Date - Tuesday, 06 January 2026.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duración:00:00:28
Introduction
Duración:00:02:14
Forging Virtue in the Furnace of Greece and Rome
Duración:00:19:32
Imperfect Virtues and Deadly Vices
Duración:00:20:59
How Sin Vanished and Virtue Was Privatised
Duración:00:23:36
An Enlightened Virtue: the Equality of the Species and the Abolition of Slavery
Duración:00:23:42
'Self-love and Social': Some Enlightenment Concepts of Human Nature and its Social Expression
Duración:00:25:28
Freedom's Paradox and the Price of Sin
Duración:00:22:31
Nietzsche and the Transformation of the Virtues
Duración:00:30:44
Confucianism and Filial Piety: When Political Loyalty Was Not a Civic Virtue
Duración:00:22:31
Belief and Belonging: Reflections on Virtue and Power
Duración:00:25:21
The Dharma King and the Liberated Sage
Duración:00:22:20
We Need Self-Help Books, but Self-Help Books Don't Help
Duración:00:25:05
Sins and Humans: How Individual Sin Shaped the Western Concept of a Person
Duración:00:21:33
Is Heroism in Combat Courageous? An Attempt to Answer Pope Francis with Virtue Ethics
Duración:00:23:02
Transhumanism and AI: the Ultimate Expression of Pride?
Duración:00:20:23
The Journey to Conservatism and a Diverse Sweden
Duración:00:43:00
Ending Credits
Duración:00:00:28