The Relationship Between Happiness and Living Well

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Being happy is not really the goal of life. The goal is to live well. And that sometimes involves unhappiness and the unhappiness that comes with confronting reality. So it's very important to frame the philosophical project of ethics in terms of living well, primarily, and happiness only secondarily.

Sam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the difference between "telic" and "atelic" activities, the power of reframing, FOMO, bias toward the future, regret, the asymmetry between pain and pleasure, and other topics.

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