EconTalk

Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

Nov 14, 2022

01:21:12

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The Quest of the Life Well Lived

02:19

The Distinction between Tellic and Atelic Activities. Aristotle. Human species ending?

03:12

The Anti-Shuffler or the Sheffler in a Different Version

02:50

Is There a Moral Progress in the Holocaust?

02:26

Introduction

3min

Is Your Interest in the People of 2,200 and Beyond?

3min

The Last Humans

2min

Is There a Dystopia in Cloning?

4min

Would You Sit There and Read Catcher in Their Eye?

2min

The Catcher in the Ryber Barker

3min

Aristotle's Difference Between Tell Like and Enirgea

3min

The Last Sunset

2min

Death Does Our Own Deaths, Right?

2min

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Is There a Pyramid Scheme of Meaning in the Future?

2min

11.

We Can Have the Meaning Now, Right?

2min

12.

How Would Religion Fit Into This?

4min

13.

Beethoven's Ninth Will Never Be Played Again

2min

14.

The Anti-Shuffler or the Sheffler in a Different Version

3min

15.

I Don't Want to Die Before I Get Certain Things Done That I Want to Do

2min

16.

How to Get Through a Day Without Knowing What You're Doing

3min

17.

We're in a Wild West, Right?

2min

18.

You Can't Move, You Can Wail and That's It

3min

19.

Is Everyone Just Copying Everyone Else?

2min

20.

The Quest of the Life Well Lived

2min

21.

The Idea of Human Dignity Is Getting Worked Out

4min

22.

Is Progress an Illusion?

4min

23.

Is There a Moral Progress in the Holocaust?

2min

24.

Do You Think We've Made Progress?

4min

25.

Do Individual Human Beings Make Progress on Their Life?

2min

26.

Agnes-Calard, What Is a Life Well Lived?

3min

27.

Do You Believe That Corporal Punisher Is a Good Father?

4min

28.

Are You Doing a Better Job Being a Good Person?

2min

29.

The Aims of Education

5min

Suppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come along after us. How would you react to such a world? Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago says she would be filled with despair. But why does this seem worse than our own inevitable deaths? Callard speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the meaning of life, and what exactly about the end of humanity is so demoralizing. The conversation concludes with a discussion of whether humanity is making progress.

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EconTalk

Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

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The Quest of the Life Well Lived

The Distinction between Tellic and Atelic Activities. Aristotle. Human species ending?

The Anti-Shuffler or the Sheffler in a Different Version

Is There a Moral Progress in the Holocaust?

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