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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: How to Read Ecclesiastes: Absurdity, Futility, and the Simple Value of Life / Jesse Peterson
Description: The book of Ecclesiastes has puzzled readers for millennia with its unflinching observations about absurdity, meaninglessness, vanity, and futility. Biblical scholar Jesse Peterson joins Evan Rosa to discuss his book, Qoheleth and the Philosophy of Value, bringing contemporary philosophy into dialogue with this ancient text and reflecting on what happens when a sage confronts the gap between expectation and reality.
"Can you view your work, your toil, not just as a means to a further end? Can you rather turn to simply enjoy the work itself?"
Together they discuss the distinction between meaning and value...