Professor Jennifer Baker on Understanding Modern Stoicism
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4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks to Professor Jennifer Baker about her approach to teaching Stoicism, ethics, and political theory at the College of Charleston, what the Stoics might have said about driving a Mercedes instead of a Hyundai (or a Tesla), the challenges of teaching to today’s student population, and more.
Jennifer Baker holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and B.A. in Philosophy from Brown. She brings her academic training and passion for understanding ancient wisdom to the courses that she teaches on ethical and political theory, environmental ethics and philosophy, business ethics, bioethics, and American philosophy. Her research is on virtue ethics, and she looks to ancient ethical theories as positive examples of how ethics ought to be done today. She explores philosophical ideas in her blog on Psychology Today: For the Love of Wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom |
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| 0:41.3 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:42.8 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | My guest today is Professor Jennifer Baker, who is a professor at the College of Charleston |
| 0:55.9 | where she teaches on ethics and political theory and on stoicism. |
| 1:01.3 | She considers herself a stoic. |
| 1:02.8 | She teaches stoicism to her student. |
| 1:04.9 | She's written a number of fascinating articles on her blog at Psychology Today called |
| 1:10.2 | for the love of wisdom, all about stoicism. |
| 1:13.3 | And she's written a number of interesting papers about stoicism that I've read. |
| 1:16.8 | And I think you're really going to like this interview. |
| 1:19.7 | We talked about this at the end, and I hope she's writing and working on a book about |
| 1:22.6 | stoicism that she can bring her perspective and ideas and quite frankly energy. |
| 1:28.4 | She's quite energetic and fun and not a stodgy old white dude talking about these ideas. |
| 1:34.0 | And I can see why she's so engaging and interesting to her students. |
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