Podcast #951: The Hobbit Virtues

Advantage ethics is a lifestyle, a framework for growing character and making ethical choices. To find out about advantage ethics, you could possibly learn a philosophical treatise by Aristotle. Or, you could possibly learn a fictional novel by J.R.R Tolkien. As my visitor, Christopher Snyder, observes, the beliefs of advantage ethics are effectively illustrated in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, being vividly embodied within the characters of Center-earth.

Chris is a professor of European historical past, a medieval scholar, and the writer of Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ethics from The Lord of the Rings. At this time on the present, he shares the way in which Tolkien’s fantasy tales present actual classes within the capability of unusual folks to behave heroically. We focus on the braveness of persistence, the significance of fellowship and the way it differs from friendship, the function of merrymaking within the good life, and the worth of chivalry.

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