320. Massimo Pigliucci How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society
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In this episode Michael Shermer speaks with the stoic philosopher and evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci on how to apply the ancient wisdom of stoicism to our personal lives and to our society.
Shermer and Pigluicci discuss: his journey from Rome to New York \\u2022 evolutionary biology \\u2022 stoic philosophy \\u2022 can there be a science of meaning and morality? \\u2022\\xa0ultimate questions \\u2022 desire, action, depression, suicide, anger, anxiety, love, and friendship \\u2022 practical spiritual exercises \\u2022 how to react to situations \\u2022\\xa0teaching virtue to politicians \\u2022\\xa0philosophy and politics \\u2022 character and leadership \\u2022\\xa0the nature of evil.
Massimo Pigliucci is the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. The author or editor of sixteen books, he has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Salon, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His books include: Making Sense of Evolution; Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk; Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem; Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life; A Field Guide to a Happy Life; A Handbook for New Stoics; How to Be a Stoic; The Quest for Character.
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