Kieran Setiya
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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
26 editions
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2017
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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
30 editions
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2022
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Reasons without Rationalism
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2007
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Knowing Right From Wrong
5 editions
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2012
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Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)
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2019
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Internal Reasons: Contemporary Readings
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2011
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Practical Knowledge: Selected Essays
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“the feeling of stillness after a life of too much motion, such as sailors experience when they walk on dry land after too long at sea, but”
― Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
― Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
“the feeling of stillness after a life of too much motion, such as sailors experience when they walk on dry land after too long at sea,”
― Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
― Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
“If the best we could do was to minimize injustice and human suffering, so that life was not positively bad, there would be no point in living life at all. If human life is not a mistake, there must be some things that matter not because they solve a problem or address a need that we would rather do without but because they make life positively good. They would have what I've called "existential value." Art, pure science, theoretical philosophy: they have value of this kind. But so do mundane activities like telling funny stories, amatueur painting, swimming or sailing, carpentry or cooking, playing games with family and friends—what the philosopher Zena Hitz has called "the little human things." It's not just that we need them in order to recharge so that we can get back to work, but that they are the point of being alive. A future without art or science or philosophy, or the little human things, would be utterly bleak. Since they will not survive unless we nurture them, that is our responsibility, too.”
― Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
― Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
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