This is what much of Greco-Roman philosophy, in the Socratic vein, focused on: practical philosophy exploring how we ought to live
And not just the overt stuff either, but a whole slew of religious philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and more.
Stugeon's Law holds. There's also the whole publishing / academic clique environment which incentivizes such styles. And there are refreshingly clear and accessible authors in philosophy from both the present time and the past. I've been following a number of podcasts for a few years now which tend to be both reasonably high quality and quite listenable: Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy, Stephen West's Philsophize This, a set of podcasts each from Nigel Warburton nd David Edmunds (Philosophy Bites, Philosophy Sites, and a few more) and David Runciman (Talking Politics, History of Ideas, Past Present Future, etc.). Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy and Will Durant's Story of Philosophy are also engaging.
A number of these are surveys of philosophy rather principle works, but there's at least work in the genre that's readable.