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Episode 16: Navigating midlife with Kieran Setiya

Reconsidering

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Are There Standards for Assessing Some Things as More Worth Doing Than Others?

Connaisance: How do we distinguish between hobbies and what we might call diversions? That's a sort of kind of loke way in to one of the biggestof challenges and puzzles in moral philosophy. The question is, are there really standards for assessing some things as more worth doing than others? And i don't think there's a quick answer to that. I think there's an irreducible element of judgment here.

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