The Commonweal Podcast

Ep. 72 - The Right Questions


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The pandemic has forced many of us to rethink our answers to some of life’s deepest questions: How should we treat other people? Should we practice a religion? Does it matter what we believe? What would make our lives meaningful? 


Thankfully, we’re not alone. Virtue ethics, as Notre Dame’s Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko contend, offers a method for reasoning about, and gaining new insights into, these age-old questions.


On this episode, Sullivan and Blaschko join Commonweal assistant editor Griffin Oleynick to discuss insights from their new book The Good Life Method: Reasoning through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning, based on their popular course at Notre Dame. 


For further reading:

  • Inside the Seminary,” Paul Blaschko 
  • The Problem with Lazarus,” Meghan Sullivan 
  • Highbrow Self-Help,” Charles McNamara
  • Should Philosophy Retire?”, George Scialabba
  • ...more
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