The Educated Leader
This podcast seeks to educate and empower leaders in politics, civil society and the church to know what it means to be human and to act accordingly.
Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau leads the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN), which he founded in 2010 to provide Christian politicians with faith formation, education and networking opportunities. He is the founder and principal of Ambrose Advice e.U., a company that provides strategic advisory and leadership coaching to senior public office holders around the world. Dr. von Geusau is Rector emeritus and Professor for Philosophy of Law and Education at ITI Catholic University in Austria.
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The Educated Leader
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - The Body as Gift: Incarnation, Vulnerability, and Human Dignity
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Session 6: The Body as Gift: Incarnation, Vulnerability, and Human Dignity
The person is not a soul that happens to inhabit a body but a bodily being whose flesh is constitutive of who they are. This session explores what it means theologically that God became incarnate, and what the Incarnation reveals about the dignity of the body. It also addresses human vulnerability and dependence as positive features of creaturely existence rather than defects to be overcome, drawing on MacIntyre's account of our ‘animality’ and the phenomenology of the lived body
Reading: CCC §§362–368 (the body as constitutive of the person); John 1:1–14 (the Prologue); John Paul II, Salvifici Doloris §§3–5 (the person as body); Jean Vanier, Becoming Human ch. 1–2; MacIntyre, Dependent Rational Animals ch. 6–7
Instructor: Dr. Aloysius Ventham
Philosopher and meta-ethicist. Program Director of the Villa Steiner Academy. Works on moral reasoning, judgment, and responsibility; teaches philosophy and ethics in Salzburg and Vienna.