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

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The Distinction Between Happiness and Living Well

What is a life well lived? I think it's it's a very hard question. It's much easier to say I hope helpful things about what it's not then directly specify what it is. To living well that involves not just how you feel or your state of mind But engagement with the world and engaging with the world in the ways you should. The ideal lives are almost always unreachable but also because Trying to get towards them when they're unreachable is often a source of further suffering.

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