Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Kieran Setiya · 2022

Kieran Setiya · 2022 · book · a few weeks of evenings · Steady

A philosopher who lives with chronic pain writes about illness, loneliness, failure, grief and the feeling that life does not add up, and what careful thinking can and cannot do about them. Honest about the limits of consolation.

Worth knowing: Philosophy, not psychology: it offers arguments, not measured effects.

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