The Importance of Values in Life

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I'm fine with a theoretical account of what it is that makes people have a good life and Be happy and whatever flourish even if that includes a very subjective notion of value. My objection really was one about whether or not we can say that somebody is object objectively It's a good value or a good desire or not. And I've always separated those two Right you could be an objective is about one and it's a bit different about the other. So I take that as a separate question then from what values one ought to have and Yeah, and well particularly if I mean you could ask the what values ought one to have from two different perspectives You could ask it from the point of

Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What about emotion? How can we make our values more consistent and sustainable? Do we know our friends better than we know ourselves? Plus, are philosophers experts? Experts of what? What are the boundaries of our discipline? And what motivates a gay Mormon to stay in the Church? In the first segment, David and Tamler list a few things they're grateful for on Thanksgiving, including you, the listeners (awwwwww...)

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National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation [wikipedia.org]
Valerie Tiberius personal website [sites.google.com]
Tiberius, V. (2012) Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being. In Brey, P., A. Briggle & E. Spence (Eds.). The good life in a technological age. Routledge. [verybadwizards.com]
Desire theories of well-being ( from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Well-Being) [plato.stanford.edu]

Special Guest: Valerie Tiberius.

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