Navigating a Good Life: The Socratic Compass In this episode of Philosophical Paths, we return to the ridge — that symbolic vantage point where the landscape of life opens in every direction and the unsettling truth becomes clear: there isn’t one path ahead, but many, and you still have to choose. Building on Episode 1 and the supplemental deep-dive into The World’s Condition and How We Got Here, we now turn inward to the question Socrates insisted no one can avoid: What is a good life? And w...
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Navigating a Good Life: The Socratic Compass In this episode of Philosophical Paths, we return to the ridge — that symbolic vantage point where the landscape of life opens in every direction and the unsettling truth becomes clear: there isn’t one path ahead, but many, and you still have to choose. Building on Episode 1 and the supplemental deep-dive into The World’s Condition and How We Got Here, we now turn inward to the question Socrates insisted no one can avoid: What is a good life? And w...
Supplemental Episode: "The world's condition and how we got here"
Philosophical Paths
35 minutes
1 month ago
Supplemental Episode: "The world's condition and how we got here"
This companion to Episode 1 steps back from your individual life and looks at the wider landscape you’re trying to navigate — a world many of us feel we didn’t design, nor that we are responsible for. Rather than shrugging and saying “it’s always been this way,” we trace how today’s pressures took shape: from the “stable” late 20th century, through the Reagan–Thatcher economic turn, the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, widening wealth and income gaps, and the quiet erosion of job security, digni...
Philosophical Paths
Navigating a Good Life: The Socratic Compass In this episode of Philosophical Paths, we return to the ridge — that symbolic vantage point where the landscape of life opens in every direction and the unsettling truth becomes clear: there isn’t one path ahead, but many, and you still have to choose. Building on Episode 1 and the supplemental deep-dive into The World’s Condition and How We Got Here, we now turn inward to the question Socrates insisted no one can avoid: What is a good life? And w...
