The Worthy House (Charles Haywood) Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families (Johann Kurtz)
Nov 24, 2025
Explore the concept of legacy and its contrast with modern consumption. Delve into the true nature of charity, emphasizing local connections over impersonal philanthropy. Discover why family should be central to legacy building and how holistic merit can include virtues beyond wealth. Learn how lasting families utilize rituals and tradition for influence across generations. The importance of investing in local communities and creating permanent assets for future generations is highlighted, urging listeners to take action on their legacies today.
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Consumption Replaced Legacy As Modern Creed
- Modern consumption is treated as the chief moral aim, replacing older communal duties and legacies.
- Johann Kurtz urges recovering pre-modern family-centered virtues to resist this consumerist creed.
Charity Requires Personal Relationship
- True charity links love and mutual knowing, focusing on people spatially and relationally near you.
- Distant, impersonal giving often fails the moral test because it lacks personal relationship and accountability.
Philanthropy Drifted From Local Duty
- Twentieth-century philanthropy secularized giving and shifted funds toward impersonal, political projects.
- Foundations like Ford illustrate how centralized philanthropy can betray original local missions and cause social harm.