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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Grief Pill: A Self-Protective Tool for Happiness

David Frum: It's in truly breaking the spell of thought such that you recognize that the consciousness that's aware of sorrow is the same as the consciousness that’s aware of joy and thoughts. The question is how deep does all that run and how perfectly could want to accomplish that project? He says it was sort of a question of ethics and whether it's an ethical, there's really no way to avoid these sort of ethical questions about whether we should make use of this kind of psychological refuge.

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