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Life Is Hard
- How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
- Narrated by: Kieran Setiya
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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Pain, loneliness, grief, injustice...hope?
Life is hard—as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.
But could there be solace—and even hope—in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striving for our "best lives" and help us find warmth, humanity and humour in the lives we actually have? Could it inspire in us the desire for a better world?
In this profound and personal book, Kieran Setiya shows how philosophy can help us find our way. He shares his own experience with chronic pain and the consolation that comes from making sense of it. He asks what we can learn from loneliness and loss about the value of human life. And he explores how we can fail with grace, confront injustice and search for meaning in the face of despair. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, as well as fiction, comedy, social science and personal essay, Life Is Hard is a book for this moment—a work of solace and compassion. It draws us towards justice, for ourselves and others, by acknowledging what it means to be alive.
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- Segun Osuntokun
- 11-08-23
Wonderful meditations
Thoughtful, thought-provoking and beautifully narrated meditations on how philosophy can help shape our lives.
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- Patrick Fitzpatrick
- 27-11-22
Excellent book well narrated
Excellent book well narrated , I really enjoyed the way it was segmented and the journey it took.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-04-23
meaningless book
last few chapters were incoherent, just mindless ramblings from the author. wasted my time and got nothing out of it.
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