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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Broken Connection Between Philosophy and Living Well

There used to be the whole point of philosophy to come up with some vision of life and the world that made securing as durable a possible form of well-being. And then it became this far more abstract and arcane discipline where it seemed to want to emulate mathematics and science, says David Frum. "I just feel like we lost our purchase on something important there"

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