The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning

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Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and HappinessFor seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course &“God and the Good Life,&” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others—as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Iris Murdoch, and W. E. B. Du Bois have to say about how to live well. Sullivan and Blaschko do the timeless work of philosophy using real-world case studies that explore love, finance, truth, and more. In so doing, they push us to escape our own caves, ask stronger questions, explain our deepest goals, and wrestle with suffering, the nature of death, and the existence of God.Philosophers know that our &“good life plan&” is one that we as individuals need to be constantly and actively writing to achieve some meaningful control and sense of purpose even if the world keeps throwing surprises our way. For at least the past 2,500 years, philosophers have taught that goal-seeking is an essential part of what it is to be human—and crucially that we could find our own good life by asking better questions of ourselves and of one another. This virtue ethics approach resonates profoundly in our own moment.The Good Life Method is a winning guide to tackling the big questions of being human with the wisdom of the ages.
Copyright:
2022

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Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781984880314
Related ISBNs:
9781984880307
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Religion and Spirituality, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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