Very Bad Wizards Episode 79: Good Lives, Good Friends, and Gay Mormons (with Valerie Tiberius)
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Dec 4, 2015 AI Snips
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Philosophy In Prison Education
- Tamler recounts attending a prison entrepreneurial program and meeting an inmate passionately reading philosophy.
- The encounter showed deep intellectual engagement even inside prison.
Epicyclic Engineering And Lost Big Questions
- Philosophical writing drifted into tiny technical disputes that lost sight of big life questions.
- Valerie calls this trend 'epicyclic engineering' and urges balance toward broader practical inquiry.
Well‑Being As Value Fulfillment Over Time
- Valerie frames the personal good as fulfilling appropriate values over a life, not raw pleasure or any single desire.
- Values include emotional dispositions plus cognitive endorsement that guide planning and reasons.