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February 06, 2020 —
How to Live a Good Life (Robert Wright, Massimo Pigliucci, & Skye Cleary)
The Wright Show
- Skye and Massimo's new co-edited book, with Daniel Kaufman, How to Live a Good Life
- Existentialism's intersections with Stoicism
- How Skye encountered Existentialism while in business school
- Sartre and de Beauvoir's famous attempt to live a life of freedom
- Are philosophers a bunch of hypocrites?
- Personal authenticity vs. social convention
- Why Stoicism doesn't mean passive acceptance
- Skye and Massimo on the philosophies they found most interesting
- How Wittgenstein would view this book
March 25, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Daniel Tippens
Sophia
- Rationalism, its virtues and ideals
- Manifestations of rationalism in epistemology ...
- ... in ethics ...
- ... and in political philosophy
- Critique of rationalism: It can't be reasons all the way down
- Dan K. claims rational ethicists don't really exist ...
- ... and if they did, you wouldn't like them
- How philosophy turned to rationalism, and Dan K. turned away from it
June 27, 2018 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- Dan and Massimo on ontology: What exists and what doesn't?
- What, if anything, do Saturn's rings have in common with virtue?
- Materialism as a product of scientism
- The immaterial features of human life and society
- The most important philosopher you've never heard of
- What does Daniel Dennett mean by "self," anyway?
- Massimo: A single ontology isn't enough to describe reality
October 10, 2017 —
Daniel Kaufman & Daniel Tippens
Sophia
- What is the "morality everywhere" problem?
- Hume on "the cautious, jealous virtue" of justice
- The moral responsibility of comedians
- What moral universalists get wrong about everyday choices
- A critique of Daniel Tippens' concept of moral production
- Daniel Tippens explains what it takes to be morally courageous
- Can moral activists win?
November 14, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
The Wright Show
- Announcing a series of "sixty-second sermons"
- Tribalism and Trump's success
- Apocalypse now?
- Dan vs. Bob on whether a global community is possible
- The moral dimensions of the election
- The backlash against political correctness
- What it feels like to be an outsider
- A closer look at MeaningofLife.tv's "sermons" and other local news
March 11, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Robin Wang
The Wright Show
- Unpacking the Dao De Jing's famous opening line, "The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao"
- "The way" as a descriptive and prescriptive moniker
- Rising above the perspective of the moment
- The relationship among Daoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism
- Spirituality and transcendence in Daoism
- Robin's work as a consultant on The Karate Kid remake
- Why Robin's book uses "yinyang" instead of "yin and yang"
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