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#789 Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

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The Risks of Starting With Ideals

When we think about people who might have lived in a good life and the opposite people who may have really messed up their lives it seems that the most extreme examples on one side or the other Are the clearest ones. But when it comes to the vast majority of us common humans It seems that there the question is more complicated and is not really clear Who is really living a good life or a bad life? Well, often people will find in their immediate circle examples of people who are you know finding joy in often imperfect circumstances That they they can point to as cases of living a good enough life but I think those Those examples are useful ones to have in mind.

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