The Good Life Method
by Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko
Two Notre Dame philosophers adapt their popular course: using Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas and others to ask what you value, what work is for, how to love, how to suffer and how to face death, with writing exercises. It is accessible philosophy for adults and more rigorous than most books on the shelf.
Read it if…
you want to think seriously about your life with the help of real philosophy.
Skip it if…
you want quick tactics; this is reflective and takes effort.
Three things you will actually use
- Ask what the good life is before optimizing for it.
- Examine your work: is it for money, meaning or both?
- Practice the virtues; they are habits.
Do this first
Write your 'apology': a page defending how you live, as if to a skeptical friend.
Our verdict
Thoughtful and rigorous; philosophy as a practice.
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