{"id":6157,"date":"2014-04-30T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2014-04-30T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:17:06","slug":"the-essential-elements-of-the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-essential-elements-of-the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Elements of The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/the-good-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/myucsd.tv\/files\/2014\/03\/771-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"771\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3473\" \/><\/a>The Greek philosopher Aristotle distinguished between &#8220;mere life&#8221; and &#8220;the good life.&#8221; The Good Life involves the principles that express our highest ideals: life as we would like to live it. Not food as nourishment, but food as delight and pleasure; not shelter as mere protection from the elements, but shelter as artistic expression.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Franklin thought the good life was a life of improvement, spent pursuing knowledge, cultivating friendship, advancing freedom, and addressing human needs.<\/p>\n<p>For some, The Good Life involves the pursuit of philosophy and theology. For others, it is about politics and economics, psychology and sociology. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/25955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/myucsd.tv\/files\/2014\/04\/al-pisano-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"al-pisano\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3670\" \/><\/a>Al Pisano, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, concludes this seven-part series in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/25955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engineering as a Force for the Public Good<\/a>. Pisano presents a host of projects demonstrating the role of engineering in medical advances, transportation safety, sustainable energy and other solutions for the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Check out other episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/the-good-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Good Life<\/a>, featuring Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, Political scientist Alan Houston, Professors Fonna Forman, Teddy Cruz, Carol Padden, and Gabriele Wienhausen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek philosopher Aristotle distinguished between &#8220;mere life&#8221; and &#8220;the good life.&#8221; The Good Life involves the principles that express our highest ideals: life as we would like to live it. Not food as nourishment, but food as delight and pleasure; not shelter as mere protection from the elements, but shelter as artistic expression. Benjamin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}