College Visit with UCSD's Manuel Vargas

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do you see the world and how much of that is based on lived experiences? How much comes from your education (formal and informal)? When was the last time you came to a new insight or position without being exposed to something new? This is a conversation with UCSD philosophy professor Manuel Vargas that might shake up your point of view on blame, determinism, midlife crises and what sets the table for cooperation. Special thanks to The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for supporting this series. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How much longer in our drive-tam have we been in this car for a long time?
0:03.3	God, let's see, we left at 815.
0:06.3	Oh look, we're passing Incinatus Community Park right now at my friend Andy's house.
0:09.9	We only have about another 20 minutes, I think.
0:15.2	Welcome to Kelly Corgan Wonders.
0:16.8	I'm Kelly Corgan, and lately I've been wondering about midlife crises.
0:21.2	And if asking ourselves the bigger questions of life
0:24.7	might help us avoid them.
0:26.5	What is truth?
0:27.5	What is love?
0:28.4	What is beauty?
0:29.6	To get some answers, my producer Tammy Stedman and I drove down the Pacific Coast Highway
0:34.1	from Santa Barbara to San Diego to sit in on a class taught by an award-winning
0:39.0	author and professor, Manuel Vargas at UCSD.
0:43.0	The sun was shining, the campus was stunning,
0:45.8	and Manuel seemed like the coolest teacher anyone could hope for.
0:49.6	So join us, we'll be right back to touch on all the big questions.
0:53.9	Here at Kelly Corgan Wonders.
0:59.9	Welcome back to Kelly Corgan Wonders.
1:13.1	My guest today is Dr. Manuel Vargas.
1:15.3	He's an author and a researcher and a philosophy professor who's currently
1:18.4	teaching at the very beautiful University of California at San Diego.
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