Meghan Sullivan

You shouldn't want any potentially bad stuff to come into yourself.

About 500 years later, another great philosopher comes on the scene and he innovates this debate.

This is Jesus of Nazareth.

Now, a lot of people don't think of Jesus as a philosopher, but if you read the Gospels, he is getting into philosophical disputes all the time that rival the ones the ancient Greek philosophers are having.

The best one, I think, comes in the Gospel of Luke.

Jesus gets a question from a Jewish ethicist.

The core of the good life in Judaism is loving God and loving others as another self.

And the ethicist asks Jesus, what does this mean?

And Jesus responds with a thought experiment.

One day, this man is walking down the road from Jerusalem to Jericho when some robbers come upon him.

They strip him naked, take all of his stuff, and beat him within an inch of his life.

They leave him to die by the side of the road.

Two men walk by.

They notice the man dying by the side of the road, and they're unmoved.

They just walk on by.

A third man comes around, a Samaritan, and he sees the man, and his guts move inside of him.

The Greek word in the Gospel of Luke that we're given is splanchnizomai.

His guts churn inside of him.

In the ancient world,

Strong emotions like love, they didn't live in your heart.