You can't, because love is

you can say love, but how do you capture that

in an objective way?

You can't because love is mostly a subjective feeling and that's to me perhaps the way

questions like the origin of everything go right that you in order to answer such a question you need to believe in something and if your belief is a

God that's fine for you if your belief is a theory or model which is scientific that's fine

for you but have the humility to accept that this is not the

final truth of everything but it's something based on a belief system. Hello and welcome to Wises is happening with me your host Chris Hayes. You know one of the things that I loved about being a philosophy student when I was an

undergraduate was that you would be wrenched from the mundane banal occupations of normal life.

You know, I have my to-do list, I have my homework, I have this party I want to go to,

but I also have this paper do and sometimes you think one circle out from that like in my daily life now I think a lot about bigger issues you know the fate of American democracy and the way that our politics functions and things like that.

But the amazing thing about studying philosophy

was that it would force you to think about the biggest issues, right?

And to take something that seemed like you knew basically what it was

and then start going at it until you realize that you didn't really understand it.

You know, it could be everything from like what it means to know something to the nature of the category of time to, you know, love, what's the nature of love.

And there's always something kind of,

you know, because we all go through daily life,

particularly as we get older and we're not in school

and we're kind of just, you know, knocking through a

to do list and hanging out with the people that we love, you know, particularly if you don't have a particular spiritual

tradition if you're not, you know, attending Mass or temple or mosque or meditating regularly it could be easy to not be forced to think about like the biggest issues like what is the nature of existence for instance why is there something rather than nothing? And it's thrilling and kind of terrifying but also thrilling to think about those issues. And I just encountered a New York Times

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