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144 – Life is Hard, How Philosophy can Help (with Kieran Setiya)

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Is There a Difference Between Happiness and Suffering?

I think sometimes happiness or suffering is just needless but very often when we're unhappy we're unhappy about something. It's a genuine acknowledgement of the loss of someone important in your life and that's not something to wish away or sort of to theorepize yourself out of it's a genuine part of living in touch with reality all right so I'm going to bounce around a bit because there are truly so many favorite parts of of the book. talk to me about how you think of this middle ground of facing life as it is without needing.

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