Lecture 1. Meaning : a question and a commitment -- lecture 2. Hero and saint : mapping the cultural genome -- lecture 3. The heroic age : the Greek worldview -- lecture 4. Heroism and the tragic view of life -- lecture 5. Plato : politics, justice, and philosophy -- lecture 6. Plato's Republic : the hero's reward -- lecture 7. The heroic ideal in late Stoicism -- lecture 8. "In the beginning" : the Hebrew worldview -- lecture 9. Father Abraham, the first saint -- lecture 10. Saintly types in the Hebrew Bible -- lecture 11. Jesus as saintly innovator : forgiving love -- lecture 12. Hero or saint? Saul of Tarsus.
Lecture 13. Hero or saint? Augustine of Hippo -- lecture 14. Mohammed : the prophet as saintly innovator -- lecture 15. Saint Francis and Dante : saintly troubadours -- lecture 16. The agony and ecstasy of Michelangelo -- lecture 17. Enlightenment patterns of cultural mutation -- lecture 18. Mt. Myrah revisited : saintly transgression -- lecture 19. A history of suspicion : Marx, Darwin, Freud -- lecture 20. Nietzsche : the return of the tragic hero -- lecture 21. Dostoevsky : the return of the saint -- lecture 22. A century of trauma -- lecture 23. The quantum leap -- lecture 24. Existentialism : Sartre and de Beauvoir.
Lecture 25. Camus and the absurd hero -- lecture 26. Flannery O'Connor and the mystery of grace -- lecture 27. The Holocaust and the crisis of forgiveness -- lecture 28. Faulkner and Beckett : images of the forlorn -- lecture 29. Viktor Frankl : freedom's search for meaning -- lecture 30. Simone Weil : imagining the secular saint -- lecture 31. Simone Weil : a new Augustine? -- lecture 32. Identifying the secular saint -- lecture 33. The secular saint at the movies -- lecture 34. Ernest Becker : the denial of death -- lecture 35. Terror and hope in a planetary age -- lecture 36. The secular saint : learning to walk upright.
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