Sep 23, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Amir Bergen and Kanstantsin Tsiarokhin met as students at St. John’s College and began asking what the kind of dialogue they practiced there might offer a world divided by war. The Svet Peace Project…
Michael NaglerHostKonstantin TsiarokhinGuestAmir BirginGuest
Stephanie Van HookHost
purpose of education is for each person to develop his or her best capacities in connection with the whole because it will become obvious if you really get to know who you are that your meaning and purpose in life comes from the service of others.
In fact, I taught a course on that, meaning and purpose of life, and we ran across a quote from somebody who said, the purpose of life is to serve others.
Well, I believe and I guess I belong to a community of people who believe that with St. Augustine, for example, that the purpose of life by our very nature, I'm kind of, this is almost a direct quote, by our very nature, we are forced to find community with others as broadly as possible.
In other words, to extend the sense of oneness, of care, of mutual support, of love beyond the circle in which we may find ourselves just coming up by nature.
purpose of education is for each person to develop his or her best capacities in connection with the whole because it will become obvious if you really get to know who you are that your meaning and purpose in life comes from the service of others.
In fact, I taught a course on that, meaning and purpose of life, and we ran across a quote from somebody who said, the purpose of life is to serve others.
Well, I believe and I guess I belong to a community of people who believe that with St. Augustine, for example, that the purpose of life by our very nature, I'm kind of, this is almost a direct quote, by our very nature, we are forced to find community with others as broadly as possible.
In other words, to extend the sense of oneness, of care, of mutual support, of love beyond the circle in which we may find ourselves just coming up by nature.
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