Character, Flourishing & the Good Life: A Conversation with David Brooks and Miroslav Volf

Recorded Feb. 22, 2016 Yale University Today, more than at any previous time in history, the question of the good life—the question of what makes for a flourishing life—is a pressing one. Once upon a time this question 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 we've long let atrophy; we need one another's help to ask and answer them well. But one begins to wonder: How do we even begin to have this conversation together, if each of us must answer these questions for ourselves? In this video, David Brooks and Miroslav Volf, two people who are thinking deeply about these questions, discuss how to reason about these profound questions and how to live out meaningful answers.