Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?

FromMinistry of Ideas

View podcast show

Currently unavailable

Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?

FromMinistry of Ideas

ratings:

Length:

26 minutes

Released:

Dec 18, 2017

Format:

Podcast episode

Description

Total faith in meritocracy leads to the dangerous belief that all social winners and losers are wholly deserving. Instead, we need an economy of grace.

Released:

Dec 18, 2017

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (32)

A podcast about the ideas that shape our lives.

Skip carousel

Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds by Ministry of Ideas
6 min listen
Introducing Measure for Measure by Ministry of Ideas
3 min listen
Introducing Ministry of Ideas: Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. by Ministry of Ideas
3 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies by Ministry of Ideas
18 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs by Ministry of Ideas
13 min listen
Making Meaning Episode 24: The Shining Surface: A Discussion with Stephanie Paulsell by Ministry of Ideas
8 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 1: Fathom by Ministry of Ideas
12 min listen
Illuminations Introduction by Ministry of Ideas
11 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives by Ministry of Ideas
21 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder by Ministry of Ideas
19 min listen
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey by Ministry of Ideas
25 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 5: Scoville by Ministry of Ideas
11 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ by Ministry of Ideas
27 min listen
Illuminations Episode 5: Moveable Feasts: God, we know, is outside space and time. But the need to date one faith’s most sacred feast drove a cutting-edge technological quest to accurately locate ourselves in time. by Ministry of Ideas
32 min listen
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology: A Discussion with Tulasi Srinvas by Ministry of Ideas
19 min listen
Illuminations Episode 4: Quantum Buddhism: What’s the spiritual significance of quantum mechanics? One answer comes from the Dalai Lama - a surprising but genuine lover of scientific investigation. by Ministry of Ideas
28 min listen
Illuminations Teaser by Ministry of Ideas
4 min listen
Illuminations Episode 8: Watching Heaven by Ministry of Ideas
32 min listen
Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief: A Discussion with Avi Loeb, Kate Dorsch, and Sen. Harry Reid by Ministry of Ideas
27 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Modernity?: Against the effort to master the past, genealogy reminds us that our descendants have the freedom to create new futures. by Ministry of Ideas
48 min listen
Illuminations Episode 7: Mirrors of Morality: Scientific origin stories promise to tell us who we really are. But that deepest question of human existence can never fully be answered by science. by Ministry of Ideas
30 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico: Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. by Ministry of Ideas
62 min listen
Illuminations Episode 10: Universal Knowledge: At the dawn of European exploration, the Renaissance polymath Francis Bacon dreamed of resurrecting the Garden of Eden. Driving this vision was a relentless quest to fully understand—and catalog—God's created order. by Ministry of Ideas
34 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity by Ministry of Ideas
49 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family: What is the “traditional American family?” by Ministry of Ideas
47 min listen
Illuminations Episode 6: Manifest Mars: A sense of divine destiny drove Americans to expand West. A similar spirit is behind the modern quest to conquer space. by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?: We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet people have been claiming to be modern since at least the third century BC. by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World: A Discussion with Jennie Rosenn, Andrue Kahn, and Malkah Binah Klein by Ministry of Ideas
25 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist: What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? by Ministry of Ideas
54 min listen

More Episodes from Ministry of Ideas

Skip carousel

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me: Once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality? by Ministry of Ideas
46 min listen
$Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me: Once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality?$
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 7: A Genealogy of Gun Violence: The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. by Ministry of Ideas
53 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist: What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? by Ministry of Ideas
54 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico: Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. by Ministry of Ideas
62 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 4: Jamestown and the Myth of the Sovereign Family: What is the “traditional American family?” by Ministry of Ideas
47 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Modernity?: Against the effort to master the past, genealogy reminds us that our descendants have the freedom to create new futures. by Ministry of Ideas
48 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?: We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet people have been claiming to be modern since at least the third century BC. by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Genealogies of Modernity: Climbing the Mountains of Modernity by Ministry of Ideas
49 min listen
Illuminations Episode 10: Universal Knowledge: At the dawn of European exploration, the Renaissance polymath Francis Bacon dreamed of resurrecting the Garden of Eden. Driving this vision was a relentless quest to fully understand—and catalog—God's created order. by Ministry of Ideas
34 min listen
Illuminations Episode 9: Rituals for a Dying World: A Discussion with Jennie Rosenn, Andrue Kahn, and Malkah Binah Klein by Ministry of Ideas
25 min listen
Illuminations Episode 8: Watching Heaven by Ministry of Ideas
32 min listen
Illuminations Episode 7: Mirrors of Morality: Scientific origin stories promise to tell us who we really are. But that deepest question of human existence can never fully be answered by science. by Ministry of Ideas
30 min listen
Illuminations Episode 6: Manifest Mars: A sense of divine destiny drove Americans to expand West. A similar spirit is behind the modern quest to conquer space. by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Illuminations Episode 5: Moveable Feasts: God, we know, is outside space and time. But the need to date one faith’s most sacred feast drove a cutting-edge technological quest to accurately locate ourselves in time. by Ministry of Ideas
32 min listen
Illuminations Episode 4: Quantum Buddhism: What’s the spiritual significance of quantum mechanics? One answer comes from the Dalai Lama - a surprising but genuine lover of scientific investigation. by Ministry of Ideas
28 min listen
Illuminations Episode 3: Divine Technology: A Discussion with Tulasi Srinvas by Ministry of Ideas
19 min listen
Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief: A Discussion with Avi Loeb, Kate Dorsch, and Sen. Harry Reid by Ministry of Ideas
27 min listen
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods by Ministry of Ideas
38 min listen
Illuminations Introduction by Ministry of Ideas
11 min listen
Illuminations Teaser by Ministry of Ideas
4 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder by Ministry of Ideas
19 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey by Ministry of Ideas
25 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ by Ministry of Ideas
27 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 5: Scoville by Ministry of Ideas
11 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 4: Movies by Ministry of Ideas
18 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs by Ministry of Ideas
13 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives by Ministry of Ideas
21 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 1: Fathom by Ministry of Ideas
12 min listen
Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds by Ministry of Ideas
6 min listen
Introducing Measure for Measure by Ministry of Ideas
3 min listen

Discover this podcast and so much more

Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?

Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?

Description

Titles in the series (32)

More Episodes from Ministry of Ideas