Why doesn't the public usually look to university philosophy departments for ethical guidance? A look at the topics today's academic ethicists debate offers a clue: too often they see morality as concerned with settling interpersonal conflicts or even resolving dilemmas in rare emergency situations. Absent from the curriculum are the bigger-picture questions that people face in everyday life. What accounts for this approach to ethics, which results in the seeming irrelevance of philosophy as a discipline? In this podcast, we will diagnose the contemporary problem and look to alternative philosophical approaches that try to offer real life guidance.