Bonjour friends, welcome back to the show, my guests today, a Megan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko,

their philosophy professors at the University of Notre Dame and authors.

How to lead a good life is one of the biggest quandaries that humans struggle with.

How to think about status and money and love and death are huge challenges.

Today we get to find out some of philosophy's answers to life's most fundamental questions.

Expect to learn the role of truth in leading a good life, what history has to teach us about

responsibility and agency, why Socrates was the world's first troll, why generosity is

linked to fulfillment, what Marcus Arraileus says about fears of the future, Paul and

Megan's issues with stoicism and much more.

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