This week, we will take a look at materialism through the lens of the prevalence of materialism around Christmas. We will also look some at mind-body dualism and monism and the relation of these to materialism.

Seeking Life

016 - Materialism and... Stuff...

I haven't made an episode in a while, but I cannot remain silent on the racial inequality in our country. We must work to improve the racial inequality that systemically pervades our society.

On Racial Inequality

This week, we will discuss beginnings and endings and how these go together. We will also briefly discuss time as a concept.

019 - New Beginnings

Christmas is this week, so to fit with the spirit of the season, we are going to discuss the nature of joy and how it ties in with selflessness.

018 - It's Not About Me

This week, we will continue discussing some Christmas related topics by discussing family and tradition. We will largely emphasize choosing to see family members as friends and how this is beneficial.

017 - Family and Tradition

This week we will discuss morality. We will look at the three main moral systems: deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics. We will also see how these can be seen in popular culture through the Avengers movies.

015 - Morality Wars

Thanksgiving is this week so it is only fitting that we discuss thankfulness. In this episode, we will consider the nature of thankfulness as well as its connection to optimism. We will also discuss the difference between being "thankful for" and "thankful to."

014 - Thinking of Thanks

Seeing as 13 is typically regarded as an unlucky number, I figured we might as well take this week to discuss fate, luck, and free will. We will discuss Voltaire and Tolstoy's arguments against free will and the implications of these.

013 - Fate, Luck, and Free Will

An essential question that we deal with is: What does it mean to be human? This week, we will look at this question and seek to answer it partially by looking at the states of nature described by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

012 - What is Man?

Peace and rest are essential to living well. This week, we will discussion the relationship between peace, calm, and quiet as we seek to find a more restful life.

011 - Peace and Quiet

This week we will discuss what it is that makes us happy. We will go over several key qualities that these things must have and work to find what actually can lead to our happiness. We will be using some quotes from Pascal to help discover these qualities.

010 - What Makes Us Happy

We all love something in life. This week we will discuss the Platonic tripartite soul, ordering of the soul, and ordering of loves. We will work to see the value of properly ordering what we love.

009 - Let's Talk About Love

We all desire satisfaction. In this week's episode we will discuss what satisfaction and contentment mean, how they are different, and how they relate to each other. We strive to be content yet never satisfied.

008 - Contentment vs Satisfaction

Relative truth commonly comes up in our society's understanding of truth. In this episode, we will discuss what relativism and truth mean, delve a little into what perspectivism is, and discuss what it means to seek after truth.

007 - The Illusion of Relative Truth

This week, we will discuss what exactly virtue means, why we should even pursue it, and how to pursue virtue. We will see that virtue is possible in all aspects of life and be challenged to start seeking virtue daily.

006 - Why Virtue?

In this weekly podcast join me in learning how to live well. Covering a variety of topics important to life, we will seek to live a life that constantly moves towards human flourishing (eudaimonia). That's generally what we do here.