Prof. Jeffrey Stout - Slavishness, Democracy, and the Death of God

Professor Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, delivers the Gifford Lecture entitled "Slavishness, Democracy, and the Death of God". It is the fifth lecture in the series 'Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King’.

Emerson was concerned with how great transformations occur, what it is to stand for an ideal, and what democratic ideals demand of us. Modern Christians, he said, behave as if God were dead. Emerson used rhetorical and ethical categories to explain this. Nietzsche accepted much of that explanation, but regarded modern democracy as a secularized residue of Christian slavishness. If he was right, self-reliance is irreligious, and the urgent political question is not how to overcome domination, but who gets to dominate whom.

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Fantastic lecture and entire series from Dr. Stout. If we all understood and perceived this the Earth would be an amazing place, already. Peace