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Kieran Setiya, Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022, pp. xii + 222, ISBN: 978-1529151213

Author: Garrett Cullity

Published in: Society | Issue 5/2023

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Infirmity, loneliness, grief, failure, injustice, absurdity: the human condition. Never fear; philosophy is on hand—again—to offer us its solace. Not, this time, in the person of Lady Philosophy, visiting Boethius in his prison in Pavia: instead, it is MIT’s Kieran Setiya who steps forward to advocate the consolations of philosophy. He gives us one chapter on each of those six ills, and then concludes with a chapter on hope, which, as he points out, can also be added to the list: hope, too, is placed by Hesiod among the evils in Pandora’s box. …

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Lucian, On Mourning—expertly discussed by David Konstan, “The Grieving Self: Reflections on Lucian’s On Mourning and the Consolatory Tradition,” in Han Baltussen (ed.), Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2012), pp. 139–152.

Roderick M. Chisholm, Brentano and Intrinsic Value (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ch. 6.

Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd,” in his Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 23.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 35.

Robert Mackey, “Joe Biden’s Empty Rhetoric about Hope and History,” The Intercept 20 July 2022, https://theintercept.com/2022/07/20/biden-israel-palestine-seamus-heaney-hope-history/.

Title: Kieran Setiya, Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022, pp. xii + 222, ISBN: 978-1529151213
Author: Garrett Cullity
Publication date: 15-08-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Society / Issue 5/2023
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00885-2

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