A Rousseau Is Charmed by the Naturalness of the Montaigne Life

You know that strange nagging restlessness that you feel in your core? That difficulty focusing on what's in front of you? That flittering from one path to another to another in the hopes of finally feeling your purpose? That deep dissatisfaction with the ignorance we have about the deepest existential questions of life?

This episode is about that restlessness.

Benjamin Storey (along with his wife and co-author Jenna Silber-Storey) wrote a fantastic book called Why We Are Restless which traces this conversation through four giants of French philosophy - Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville.

Professor Storey joins me for a walk through this topic and how it informs and foretells our modern situation.

You can find out more about the book and what Professor Storey is up to at his website: https://www.jbstorey.com/