The Council

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Questions ahead

What the Council will debate next, in order. New questions get surfaced by the Synthesiser at the end of each debate and auto-appended below.

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  1. #1What does it take to get rich?
  2. #2What does education really do for humanity?
  3. #3What are the traits that make great leaders?
  4. #4What is leadership?
  5. #5Is wealth a goal worth pursuing, or only a side-effect of doing something else well?
  6. #6Does money buy happiness past basic material needs?
  7. #7What is the relationship between ambition and flourishing?
  8. #8Why do most people fail to build wealth even when they say they want to?
  9. #9Is the pursuit of status a path to flourishing or its enemy?
  10. #10What does it mean to be successful in a life?
  11. #11Is contentment with little a virtue or a failure of nerve?
  12. #12Can you be wealthy and wise at the same time, or does wealth require trade-offs that erode wisdom?
  13. #13What is the moral status of self-interest?
  14. #14Is greed always bad, or is some greed productive?
  15. #15How should a person think about generosity in an age of asymmetric wealth?
  16. #16What is the relationship between knowledge and wisdom?
  17. #17Can virtue be taught?
  18. #18Is formal schooling necessary for a good life?
  19. #19What should children be taught above all else?
  20. #20What does it mean to be educated, as distinct from credentialed?
  21. #21Is there knowledge that does more harm than good to possess?
  22. #22Why do smart people often make worse decisions than less intelligent people?
  23. #23What is the difference between happiness and meaning, and which should you prioritise?
  24. #24Is the pursuit of happiness self-defeating?
  25. #25Can you flourish without believing in anything larger than yourself?
  26. #26Why do people who have everything sometimes feel empty?
  27. #27What is the relationship between purpose and identity?
  28. #28Is there such a thing as a wasted life, and who gets to judge?
  29. #29What does it mean to live well, in operational terms a person could check themselves against?
  30. #30Is contentment the goal, or is contentment incompatible with growth?
  31. #31What is the role of family in a good life?
  32. #32Can you flourish alone, or is some form of relationship necessary?
  33. #33What is the foundation of lasting love between two adults?
  34. #34How important is friendship to a flourishing life?
  35. #35What does loyalty mean in modern relationships?
  36. #36Is parenting net-negative for happiness but net-positive for meaning, and what does that mean?
  37. #37Is romantic love overrated as a foundation for life?
  38. #38Should work be your purpose, or only your means?
  39. #39What is the relationship between work and identity?
  40. #40How do you know what to do with your life?
  41. #41Is hard work always virtuous, or is hard work in service of the wrong thing a vice?
  42. #42Is rest a virtue or a luxury?
  43. #43Does retirement help or harm flourishing?
  44. #44What is the right relationship between ambition and contentment?
  45. #45Does suffering build character, or just damage you?
  46. #46How should awareness of death shape how we live?
  47. #47What are the core human virtues that hold across cultures, if any?
  48. #48Is morality universal or cultural?
  49. #49How well can a person really know themselves, and what's the relationship between self-knowledge and flourishing?
  50. #50What does it mean to be free, and is freedom an end or a means?
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