episode 247 | Jun 27, 2025 | 88min

Practical Philosophy

In this conversation with Peter Limberg we dive into practical philosophy and its place amid the space-holding arts, how it can assist people with existential challenges, and how we can use it to assess cultural maturity and what we’re being called towards.
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In this podcast we talk about:

04:00 Friendships of virtue
07:00 Types of space-holding
13:30 Practical versus theoretical philosophy
22:30 Listening from ignorance
29:00 The foundations of practical philosophy
35:30 Undoing the existential knot
41:30 Defining and owning your words
47:30 The practice of philosophical inquiry
52:00 Steps of practical philosophy
1:00:00 Exploring the agency and consciousness axis
1:07:15 The Agentic Sage
1:15:00 AI and the need to be useful
1:18:00 Philosophy and the mystery

Resources Mentioned:
Aristotle
Igor Grossman
Andrew Taggard
Steve March
David Chalmers 
Marcus Aurelius 
Action inquiry, by William R Torbert

About the Guest

Peter Limberg

Peter Limberg is a writer, thinker, podcaster, Stoic, and steward of The Stoa, an online event space. His writing can be found at the “Less Foolish” Substack, which is dedicated to practical philosophy and cultural sensemaking. He is also part of the Dark Forest Collective, a group re-visioning internet imaginaries (what the internet is and could be), and serves as the philosopher-in-residence at the AI Collective, the world’s largest AI group.

WEBSITE
https://www.peterlimberg.com 
https://lessfoolish.substack.com 
https://www.thestoa.ca 
Article: High agency to wise agency

About the Host

Joel Monk

Joel Monk is a leadership coach, educator and entrepreneur. He co-founded Coaches Rising, a company on the cutting edge of online coach training with a community of over 65,000 coaches. Coaches Rising programs regularly include participants from every continent on the planet and they have collaborated with some of the leading minds in the field of human development and coaching. Joel is also a leadership coach, coaching at companies such as THNK, Booking.com, Siemens and Naspers. Joel has designed and led several entrepreneurial and leadership development programs, at places such as Socionext, THNK and The Impact Hub Amsterdam.

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