Living Well Or Being Happy?

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i think a good place to start is the distinction you make between being happy and living well. The problem of persuading people about ordinary facts, journalistic facts, at this point has become fairly excruciating. So tatthe idea that it remains difficult to persuade people about divergent moral facts somehow no longer surprising. We can't even agree about what should be on the front page of a newspaper at this point.

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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