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Kieran Setiya

Five Questions

CHAPTER

A Stronger Thesis of Self-Help

The main thing I'm thinking about right now is ways in which knowledge has value for us. What it means is something like it matters because human beings matter and because their development matters. But there's still a distinction to be preserved between the contribution to human flourishing of, say, thinking about metaphysical questions that might also be made by art or music.

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