What does it mean to live a good life? How do we find meaning and happiness in our everyday lives? In this episode, Amy Julia Becker sits down with Meghan Sullivan, co-author of The Good Life Method and philosophy professor at Notre Dame, to explore:
- The narrow American understanding of the good life
- How to help students (and all of us) explore the big questions about life, purpose, and meaning
- How individuals with intellectual disabilities contribute to our understanding of humanity
- The relationship between love, attention, and the good life
- Expanding our conceptions of work and vocation
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Guest Bio:
Meghan Sullivan is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She serves as Director of the University-wide Ethics Initiative and is the founding director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, which will launch in the summer of 2024. In 2022, Sullivan published The Good Life Method with Penguin Press (co-authored with her teaching collaborator Paul Blaschko) based on a wildly popular introductory philosophy course she developed at Notre Dame called “God and the Good Life.” Sullivan has degrees from the University of Virginia, Oxford University, and Rutgers University, where she earned a PhD in philosophy. She studied at Balliol College, Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Connect Online:
- Website: meghansullivan.org
- Facebook: @sullivan.meghan
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On the Podcast:
- The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning by Meghan Sullivan, Ph.D. and Paul Blaschko
- Questions for a Life Worth Living with Matt Croasmun (Yale)
- Young Minds in Critical Condition by Michael Roth
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TRANSCRIPT: amyjuliabecker.com/meghan-sullivan/
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YouTube: video with closed captions
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