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Making Meaning Episode 17: Remaking the World
Episode 50
We inherit a world that is already made, full of stories and structures and significance. But all of us have the capacity to remake the world and the…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jonathan Herring, "The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide" (Hart Publishing, 2022)
Episode 180
Professor Jonathan Herring makes an argument that suicidal people have a right to be protected from committing suicide, and that the state should be …
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 16: Passionate Engagement
Episode 49
Meaning is more than pleasure or even happiness—it is an intense and fulfilling engagement in projects and relationships that bring forth the best wi…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 15: Subjectivity and Significance
Episode 48
We have a tendency to view our lives as meaningful only if we are involved in heroic acts of service, creativity, or achievement. But this is misguid…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 14: The Challenge of Choice
Episode 47
The vast range of choices we can make about our lives is one of the great blessings of modernity. But that very freedom makes it hard to know what to…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 13: Flickers of Light
Episode 46
The realization that our lives are incredibly brief and we are almost certainly not going to be remembered by anyone 100 years from now can cause dee…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 12: Expansion of Life
Episode 45
Experiencing a crisis of meaning, a time when our life and world no longer cohere, is painful and wrenching. But these encounters with the abyss can …
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 11: Living Music
Episode 44
Music is not merely entertainment—it is a living tradition, a connective tissue linking generations together in a shared pursuit of joy and significa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 10: Connection in Community
Episode 43
Meaning is more than an abstraction—it is a sense that we matter to one another, woven together with threads of reciprocity. But in those times when …
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Meaning Episode 9: Questing Spirits
Episode 42
The experience of existence is one of bewilderment and even anguish. Anguish because we feel that we are incomplete beings longing for completion, mi…
3 years, 2 months ago