Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-01-08
Books mentioned on A Philosopher's Guide To The Good Life - Meghan Sullivan & Paul Blaschko - #419
Meghan Sullivan & Paul Blaschko are Philosophy Professors at the University of Notre Dame and authors. How to lead a good life is one of the biggest quandaries that humans struggle with.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics is a foundational work of ancient Greek moral philosophy by Aristotle that explores virtue, character, and the path to human flourishing.
Discussed“we've got a lot of annotated text so you can read you know aristotle's nicomachean ethics but you know with some sort of pointers and some some help to understand kind of the weirder distinctions that he's making”
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Own book The Good Life Method
“the way i connect it with with our contemporary especially like our very contemporary situation is you know maybe 10 years ago or so i used to read a lot of op-eds uh that had the following form they would say like look we all disagree about things ... so you know you can't have a policy a personal policy”
Own book The Good Life Method
“i mean probably the even better place would be to buy our the good life method book the book that we wrote based on the class which is really designed for for readers who are coming at this not as a college course but as somebody who's just really curious about starting to build philosophy into their life”