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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

My Chat with Dr. J. Budziszewski, Author of How and How Not to be Happy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_383)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

thesaadtruthwithdrsaad

Society & Culture, Science, Education

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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J. Budziszewski is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Amazon link to How and How Not to be Happy: https://amzn.to/3IDQBYf _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (March 25, 2022) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1390: https://youtu.be/JBwLO4r2efQ _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Gad Sad on the Sad Truth today I have another fantastic guest

0:06.6

with me who's a fellow regnery author who's got a book coming out how and how not

0:11.7

to be happy which coincides with my forthcoming book also

0:15.2

with Regnery on how to live the good life. Hey Jay how you doing? I'm doing great

0:20.1

thank you. Okay so let for folks who may not know you, Jay, I'll just mention a few items from your

0:26.9

bio.

0:27.9

You're a professor of government and philosophy at UT Austin, University of Texas Austin, where I will be in early May giving a few lectures

0:35.3

and meeting some nice and cool people.

0:37.6

You are the author of many books.

0:38.9

You're a philosopher by training.

0:41.5

Some of the books you've written, The Resurrection of Nature, the nearest coast of darkness, a vindication of the

0:47.1

politics of virtues, true tolerance, liberalism, and the necessity of judgment, the revenge

0:52.4

of conscience, the line through the heart,

0:54.6

natural law as fact theory, and sign of, let me see here, it went over line of contradiction

1:01.8

on the meaning of sex. Oh maybe we need to talk about this given that I'm an evolutionist.

1:07.4

You have several books that are commentaries on Thomas Aquinas. This one is the Treaties on Law and then of course you're one

1:15.8

that's forthcoming in early March how and how not to be happy. Did I cover

1:20.2

some of the main points? Yes, you did.

1:22.9

All right.

1:23.6

Okay, so get us going.

1:25.7

Tell us the central premise of your book

1:28.4

and then we could drill down on topics that might interest us.

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