Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Psychology
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Getting Metaphysical Too Quickly
As a non specialist, is one of the things that's very, very refreshing about your writing. And it ties into what i alluded to earlier, because i think people have a certain scepticism about philosophical approaches being relevant to their day-to-day lives. But you're able to actually ground it in aristotle, which i just thought was brilliant, actually. So you establish your street cred and you can appeal to a normal people all at the same timeso. I am not an aristotle expert, but there is a, a, a section in at the beginning his greatest work on ethics that uses this a. The idea is, in trying to figure something out, some big
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