cover of episode Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier

Searching for the purpose of life |Babette Babich, Frank Tallis, Jonathan Webber, Sandra Laugier

2025/6/3
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The journey in search of the destination

Does life have a purpose? Is that what gives life meaning? Or is it the journey that matters the most?

Join our four speakers - Nietzschean philosopher Babette Babich, clinical psychologist Frank Tallis, existentialist philosopher Jonathan Webber, and linguist philosopher Sandra Laugier - as they explore the different facets of this question. Setting ourselves goals in life seems both inevitable and necessary for the good life, yet achieving them might render living life meaningless. The balance between having a sense of purpose and experiencing things as they come is a hard one to set.

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