Scott M. Sullivan

Scott M. Sullivan is an author and philosopher whose work is rooted in the classical philosophical tradition. He writes about the questions that have occupied the greatest philosophers for more than two thousand years: God, the human soul, happiness, virtue, and how human beings should live.

His work draws especially on Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, bringing ancient and medieval philosophy into conversation with the enduring problems of human life.

Sullivan holds a PhD in philosophy and has written extensively in classical ethics, metaphysics, natural theology, logic, and philosophical anthropology. His books range from academic works in philosophy to accessible works on happiness, virtue, desire, wealth, suffering, tranquility, and the good life.

At the center of his writing is the classical conviction that philosophy is more than an academic discipline. It is a search for wisdom: an attempt to understand what is true, what is good, and how a human life ought to be lived.

Sullivan is also the host of The Examined Life podcast, where he brings the ideas of the great philosophers to a wider audience through conversations about philosophy and the art of living well.