Access to Inspiration is a not-for-profit podcast dedicated to uplifting and motivating listeners through compelling conversations with extraordinary individuals.
The show features guests from more than 30 countries who have pushed boundaries, explored the unknown, and made significant impacts in their respective areas.
Topics range from business and adventure, to the arts and social change.
Each episode delves into the personal journeys, challenges, and triumphs of these inspiring figures, offering valuable insights and actionable advice.
The Access to Inspiration podcast is more than just a series of interviews; it is a catalyst to inspire change within people across the globe.
Through the powerful stories it shares, the podcast encourages listeners to step into the unknown, embrace challenges, and make meaningful contributions to their own lives and the broader world.
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Access to Inspiration is a not-for-profit podcast dedicated to uplifting and motivating listeners through compelling conversations with extraordinary individuals.
The show features guests from more than 30 countries who have pushed boundaries, explored the unknown, and made significant impacts in their respective areas.
Topics range from business and adventure, to the arts and social change.
Each episode delves into the personal journeys, challenges, and triumphs of these inspiring figures, offering valuable insights and actionable advice.
The Access to Inspiration podcast is more than just a series of interviews; it is a catalyst to inspire change within people across the globe.
Through the powerful stories it shares, the podcast encourages listeners to step into the unknown, embrace challenges, and make meaningful contributions to their own lives and the broader world.
141. Christoph Quarch: Why philosophy is relevant in today’s world
Access to Inspiration
40 minutes
11 months ago
141. Christoph Quarch: Why philosophy is relevant in today’s world
Sue Stockdale interviews philosopher Dr. Christoph Quarch, exploring his definition of philosophy and its relevance in today's world. Christoph shares his personal journey toward philosophy, his academic path, and the importance of meaningful conversation as a means for individual and collective transformation. They reflect on the significance of inspiration and spirit in fostering innovation and organisational change, as well as delving into the need for slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and embracing open-mindedness as keys to living a more fulfilling life.
About Dr. Christoph Quarch Dr. Christoph Quarch is a philosopher and bestselling author of numerous books on philosophical, ethical, economic and social topics. He supports executives in companies, teaches as professor at Danube Private University in Krems a. d. Donau and as a lecturer at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) and Basel University. Christoph organises philosophical journeys for the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, and together with his podcasts, articles and the weekly radio column "Frühstücksquarch”, he covers a wide audience throughout the German-speaking world. Quarch's work draws on the sources of European philosophy to provide answers to the multiple challenges of the 21st century. In 2019, he and his wife Christine Teufel founded the New Platonic Academy to promote a renaissance of European humanism.
Philosophy is mostly about analyzing and deciphering our current mindset
There's a kind of operational system. which is working on our brain, on our mind, and we hardly ever reflect on it.
We think conversation is something that is so taken for granted, everybody knows how to do it. But in fact, we don't know how to do it.
Usually we do not listen to the words that other people use, but we only hear what we want to hear.
The more tools, instruments of communication we have, the less developed seems to be our capacity to converse in a good way.
I think we need to learn to reconnect in a proper way, to reconnect with life, to reconnect with nature, to reconnect with being itself.
I want to convince people that life is easier and probably more fulfilling when we stop trying to do everything on the basis of our own power and our own ambition.
Time Stamps [02:48] Collective social patterns and habits. [05:05] Philosophy as a lifestyle. [11:41] The importance of meaningful dialogue. [15:11] Socratic dialogue and reflection. [16:56] Disruptive Mindset in Transformation. [22:08] The significance of inspiration. [25:42] Spiritual dimension in conversation. [29:05] The essence of human interaction. [32:46] Reconnecting with nature's meaning. [40:00] Open attitude towards philosophy. [41:29] Engaging with philosophical conversations.
Access to Inspiration is a not-for-profit podcast dedicated to uplifting and motivating listeners through compelling conversations with extraordinary individuals.
The show features guests from more than 30 countries who have pushed boundaries, explored the unknown, and made significant impacts in their respective areas.
Topics range from business and adventure, to the arts and social change.
Each episode delves into the personal journeys, challenges, and triumphs of these inspiring figures, offering valuable insights and actionable advice.
The Access to Inspiration podcast is more than just a series of interviews; it is a catalyst to inspire change within people across the globe.
Through the powerful stories it shares, the podcast encourages listeners to step into the unknown, embrace challenges, and make meaningful contributions to their own lives and the broader world.
