02877cam a2200313 i 4500 552905971 TxAuBib 20220414120000.0 210115s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020054704 9781984880307 HRD 28.00 1984880306 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Sullivan, Meghan, 1982- Good life method. The good life method [BOOK] : reasoning through the big questions of happiness, faith, and meaning / Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko. New York : Penguin Press, 2022. 293 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index. Desire the truth -- Live generously -- Take responsibility -- Work with integrity -- Love attentively -- Wonder about God -- Take a leap of faith -- Struggle with suffering -- Contemplate your purpose -- Prepare for death -- Coda: The limits of philosophy. For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others—as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Iris Murdoch, and W. E. B. Du Bois have to say about how to live well. Sullivan and Blaschko do the timeless work of philosophy using real-world case studies that explore love, finance, truth, and more. In so doing, they push us to escape our own caves, ask stronger questions, explain our deepest goals, and wrestle with suffering, the nature of death, and the existence of God. Philosophers know that our “good life plan” is one that we as individuals need to be constantly and actively writing to achieve some meaningful control and sense of purpose even if the world keeps throwing surprises our way. For at least the past 2,500 years, philosophers have taught that goal-seeking is an essential part of what it is to be human—and crucially that we could find our own good life by asking better questions of ourselves and of one another. This virtue ethics approach resonates profoundly in our own moment. Provided by publisher. 20220414. Virtue. Ethics. Conduct of life. Blaschko, Paul Leonard, author.