The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #71: Humility

General Introduction
- What’s not on the blog?
- Thus begins the triptych of spring 2012

New Testament Humility
- The ethics of humility
- The Golden Rule, further
- Christ’s kenosis and ours
- Greatness requires great humility
- Gregory the Great Servant

Thomist Humility
- Aristotelian balance
- Seven virtues
- The interconnectedness of virtue
- Humility as check on magnanimity

Dante’s Terrace of the Prideful
- Exemplary statues
- The triple humility of the Annunciation
- David’s humble showmanship
- Trajan as model for Christian humility
- Justice needs humility
- The trials of the proud

Nietzsche Deconstructs Humility
- Return to pagan morality
- Inversion of master and slave
- Socratic and Christian humility
- Freud’s Neurotic Humility
- Modern self-esteem

Literary Humility
- The quiet hobbit
- Whitman’s egotheism
- Rebel rebel angels join the chorus

Humility as Tool of the Powerful
- Philippians as cure
- Quiet oppression
- The example of Africa
- Thomas’ pre-solution
- What isn’t humility?
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. New York: Christian Classics, 1981. Five Volumes.

Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. Mark Musa. New York: Penguin, 2002. Three Volumes.

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. New York: Norton, 2012.

Milton, John. The Complete Poems. New York: Norton, 2004.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Trans. Adrian del Caro. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. Seattle: Mariner, 2005.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Modern Library, 1993.

Literature, Philosophy, Podcast, Theology Benjamin Franklin, Dante, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Milton, Podcast, Thomas Aquinas, Walt Whitman