Podcast for Inquiry is back after its summer hiatus!
Sabrina Little is a philosopher, ultra-runner, and the author of The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners. She is a five-time U.S. National Champion in trail and ultrarunning, a former American Record Holder, and World Silver Medalist.
In today’s episode, Sabrina answers the question: Why do good people make better runners? What are the performance enhancing virtues, and do they outweigh the performance enhancing vices? She talks about the difference in taking a short vs long term perspective, the importance and challenge of balancing the multiple areas of life that need your time and attention, what being competitive means, and how the same behaviours can be described in very different ways.
I don't understand how Ethics and Morality are even branches of Philosophy any more, given that neuroscience, evolutionary biology, ethology and the social sciences can tell us everything we could possibly want to know, whereas Philosophy has been reduced to navel-gazing about the self-evident when it comes to questions of what it means to be Good... But then real Philosophy, which involves math and logic, is hard! And yes, l have read every fucking thing...
ReplyDeleteEnvy is absurd for people who have built lives around real, tangible accomplishments, be they large or small, without cutting corners. Such people are elevated instead of diminished by the excellence of others, and enjoy robust mental health, sans anxiety or depression, because these, too, are absurd when you actually have something concrete to show for yourself and know you always have something to offer... So do your own homework, kids! Sitting there until you figure it out yourself is good for you, but by all means go for a run to clear your head and keep fit if it brings you joy!