In this 73rd episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Christian Miller on “The Character Gap,” the title of his recent book.
Christian is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, where he has been the recipient of grant support from the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation for both The Character Project and The Beacon Project. In addition to his books on moral character and 85 academic articles, Christian has written for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Slate, and The Dallas Morning News.
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(1 hr 4 mins)
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Notes
- Christian Miller, The Character Gap
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). - Even Honest Abe was sometimes a politician first. See Jackie Mansky, “When Lincoln Was More a Politician Than an ‘Honest Abe’,” Smithsonian Magazine, February 16, 2017.
- Psychologist Daniel Batson.
- The John Templeton Foundation.
- The Character Project.
- The Beacon Project.
- Mother Theresa biography.
- Gandhi biography.
- Jesus biography.
- Confucius biography.
- Pluralism defined.
- “Moral relativism” entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
You Tell Me!
For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Christian posed the following question in this episode:
“How good do you think your own character is and what steps might you take in your life to improve it?”
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