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

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The Meaning of Life

One of the questions that really bothers some philosophers a lot is the apparent lack of meaning in life so But does it really matter that much if life does not have any meaning at all? I think that's a hard question and in some ways I think I don't directly answer in the book because what I spend a lot of time doing is trying to make sense of this question. We do have a kind of existential need To ask this question and a craving for a kind of answer to it as with social needs It probably varies from person to person How deep that need is and how disturbing it is to them individually not to feel like they have an answer to the question What is the meaning of life

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