How to Live a Good Life (Robert Wright, Massimo Pigliucci, and Skye Cleary)

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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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 ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:09.6	Hello, Sky and Massimo.
0:12.4	Hi, Bob.
0:13.5	Hi, Bob.
0:14.5	Nice to be here.
0:15.9	Good to have you.
0:16.8	Let me introduce us.
0:17.5	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.2	This is the right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You are
0:21.8	respectively
0:23.9	Sky Cleary and Massimo Pulucci.
0:28.6	And by the way, as I speak your names, I think I'm going to activate the
0:32.8	feature of this that magically highlights the person who is
0:36.8	speaking.
0:38.7	Oh, nice.
0:39.8	I like magic.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.8	We don't normally do this because normally it's just two people, but I think we would be a little on the small side if we tried to cram all three of us in.
0:49.8	So, Sky, you have never been on
0:54.5	Meaning of Life TV.
0:56.6	Well, you've been on Meaning of Life TV, but not with me.
0:58.5	Is that true?
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