Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 2, 2021

02:06:51

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What's the Meaning of Life?

04:54

Finding Your Passion

02:50

Is There a Third Category of Meaningfulness?

01:33

Introduction

2min

I Loved Logic From a Young Age

2min

Why Did You Go Into Philosophy?

2min

Why Did You Choose Princeton?

3min

Free Will and Responsibility - How Did It Come About?

3min

Is There a Freshness in Your Writing?

3min

Is There a Middle Way to Morality?

6min

Is There Any All Overcoming Framework?

3min

Is There a Barrier Between Philosophy and Psychology?

4min

10.

What Dos Psychologists Do?

4min

11.

Why Are You Doing That?

2min

12.

Visiting Your Brother in the Hospital, or Making a Groundhog Costume for Your Daughter's Halloween Parade?

5min

13.

The Fulfillment Principle

4min

14.

Finding Your Passion

3min

15.

Is It Necessary to Pursue Your Passion?

2min

16.

What Do You Find Fulfilling?

3min

17.

The Subjective Attraction of Seudocus All Day Long or Working at a Soup Kitchen?

3min

18.

Is This Worthy of Love?

2min

19.

Getting Metaphysical Too Quickly

4min

20.

Is There a Difference Between Worthy and Less Worthy Pursuits?

4min

21.

The Scales Falling From Your Eyes

3min

22.

The Problem of Subjectivity Is Subjectivity

2min

23.

The Evolution of Art, Isn't It?

2min

24.

Is There a Third Category of Meaningfulness?

2min

25.

Meaning in Life and Why Does It Matter?

2min

26.

Why You Should Live a Meaningful Life

6min

27.

The Greatest Thing in the World, Rolling Rocks

2min

28.

The Power of Example

4min

29.

The Mythesisopus - The Paradime of Absurdity

2min

30.

What's the Meaning of Life?

5min

31.

The Cosmic Perspective

3min

32.

The Meaningful Life

2min

33.

Are You a Professional Philosopher?

5min

34.

Are You Late for Your Office Hours?

3min

35.

Are You a Philosophical Hero?

2min

36.

Are We Going to Maximize Our Utility Functions?

5min

37.

Is There a Way to Make Sure Our Education System Does More Than Just Give People Jobs?

2min

38.

The Only Thing That Drives Human Beings Is Happiness

4min

39.

The Experienced Machine

4min

40.

Pursuing Happiness Is a Good Corrective, Right?

5min

Meaningfulness is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan Wolf, the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fascinating conversation explores what it is to live an ethical, meaningful life in keeping with her book, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, the role that love, fulfillment, self-interest and happiness play in giving meaning to one’s life, and how meaningful activities occur when “subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness”.

Howard Burton is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow, Ideas on Film and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.

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