What Makes a Good Life with Seth Segall

Published: Feb. 14, 2024, 11 a.m.

What does it mean to live an ethical life? And how can cultivating wisdom and virtue support us in navigating the crises of today\u2019s world?\nThese questions are at the center of Zen priest and psychologist Seth Segall\u2019s new book, The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism. Drawing from Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist ethical traditions, Segall outlines a vision of liberal pluralism grounded in human flourishing.\nIn this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle\u2019s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Segall to discuss what we can learn from comparing Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist understandings of virtue; how he understands the relationship between enlightenment and human flourishing; and how cultivating philosophical wisdom can impact our everyday lives.