Our Lukewarm Age: Relativism and God in the Modern World | Professor Erik Dempsey

Erik Dempsey, Assistant Director of the University of Texas at Austin's Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, explores the concept of modernity and its impact on humanity. They discuss the issue of lukewarmness in modern society, the influence of Nietzsche and Weber on relativism, the Catholic response to modernity, the crisis of the modern human being, and the importance of reading old books. They also discuss the relationship between emotions and thoughts in education.