Arthur Brooks’ Ultimate Philosophy Masterclass (PT. 1)

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Maybe you can hear that. I am in my office and my kids are stomping around upstairs making quite a bit of noise, so I will keep

today's episode short because I want to get right into it. It's it's with one of my absolute favorite people to nerd out about philosophy, someone who has done a whole hell of a lot to bring practical philosophy of all different types from all different schools to a huge audience, mostly through his column at the Atlantic and then through his best-selling books, including one he recently did with Oprah called Build the Life You Want. Arthur Brooks came out to the painted porch here in Bastrop. I think he's been on the podcast more than anyone else, or at least close to. He's close to being inducted into what, the four-timer club or the five-timer club?

I I don't remember exactly, but I do remember this conversation because we talked about Socrates, we talked about Plato, we talked about the cynics, we talked about Nietzsche. and what we can learn from these ancient philosophers about living a good life today. Arthur has a new book that comes out on March 31st. It's called The Meaning of Your Life, Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness. And uh if you're feeling lost or struggling, you want to find purpose, which that's what we're here to do.

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