Meaningful life draws on the typology of hero and saint

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Professor Ambrosio’s approach to the issue of a meaningful life draws on the typology of hero and saint. After listening to the first two lectures, what do you understand these terms to mean? Explain your answer, comparing and contrasting the hero and the saint and providing examples of each view of life. Are these metaphors “ideal types” that serve as fundamentally distinct ways of living personally and in society; that is, must we choose between them?

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