All Truth Seeking Has Something to Do With How We Should Live

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Jonathan Tanaka: I think that pretty much all truth seeking has something to do with how we should live. He says it's just like in our nature to want to know the answers to things, even when we're not sure they'll help us survive winter. But there are challenges to this desire to know, and he says some religions suppress or make it harder for people to find out what is true.Tanaka: Do we think at the end of the day that if we got the answers, they would come back together into something that's good for us or that's kind of meeting some like deep human need?

In today's world of misinformation and misrepresentation, it's wise to be skeptical. But has our skepticism gone too far? What does it look like to not only refute what is false — but also to follow what is true?

In this episode, hear from two philosophy professors, Dr. Meghan Sullivan of Notre Dame and Dr. Katja Vogt of Columbia University. Their conversation from April 2022 draws from philosophers like Aristotle and Plato, and they discuss how truth can be appreciated and acted upon, what it means to pursue truth together, and how rediscovering the value of truth just might make our lives and society better.

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