In the first day of class, I tell my students this responsibility to answer this question is both inalienably yours. There's no getting out of it. You could try to like give the responsibility for answering it to someone else. But even in doing that, you are exercising your responsibility and handing it off to somebody else. We're never going to be experts, but we can take seriously as amateurs as people seeking to grow in wisdom. And so the course, and I hope the book, are these offers of help from the Buddha, from Confucius, from the Muslim tradition, from philosophers across the ages.

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