Relational Grief and Grief for the Sake of the One Who's Died

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Grief for the sake of someone who's died is different from relational grief. Relational grief involves you as one of two sides of a relationship, but there's also grief that is just about the death of someone else. It would be sort of answered by denying that we really existed in the kind of way that would make us fit objects of that kind of attachment. The therapy for that would have to be something much more radical and point us towards the non-existence of the self.

Sam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the difference between "telic" and "atelic" activities, the power of reframing, FOMO, bias toward the future, regret, the asymmetry between pain and pleasure, and other topics.

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