Pursuing the Good Life Through Reading Biography

It is one thing to pursue the good life through the study of abstract concepts, and another to pursue it through observing someone’s own pursuit in a story. Yes, we need to study the concepts, ideas, and movements of moral philosophy. But one of the things I often find missing in the study of ethics is understanding the story of the people behind the ideas, and learning about their own philosophical journeys as it relates to the massive shifts in the discipline. As many of us embark on a summer ...