Consultations & Interviews
Character, Flourishing & the Good Life: A Conversation with David Brooks and Miroslav Volf
David Brooks & Miroslav Volf
Initiative
Life Worth Living
Envisioning a world where deep reflection on the good life is central to education and public discourse.
Look around and you'll find any number of gurus who can give you the techniques and tactics to get the life you want.
But maybe what we need is to ask the deeper question: What is truly worth wanting in the first place?
This question once came pre-answered—by culture, by religion, by tradition—but these days, we each have to ask and answer for ourselves: What is the good life? What does it mean to live a flourishing life? These are difficult questions that require intellectual muscles many of us have never developed; we need one another’s help to ask and answer them well.
Through courses at Yale College, teacher training, and collaboration with faculty around the world, the Life Worth Living program equips students, educators, and the public for the lifelong process of discerning, articulating, and pursuing the good life by engaging the world’s philosophical and religious traditions.
