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Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Conversations with Tyler

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Is Hunger the Best Sauce?

I think that hunger will always make you want to eat, but will hunger is hunger enough to make eating kind of meaningful to you and deserving of your attention? And I think it isn't. Let's say we felt the world had 30 days left, and Asteroid was coming, a supernova, whatever. How would or should we behave then? And are the people who are good? Do they have a better time than the people who were not good? Yes. The more virtue you have, the more difficult the circumstances can be in which you still act and live well. So if you're in relatively easy circumstances, even just being an okay person is enough. But when you start

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