Results for "Setiya, Kieran"

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST“Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better... Read More about Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST“Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better... Read More about Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks tha... Read More about Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

A lo largo de la historia de la filosof a, la tendencia ha sido creer que la vida es y debe ser buena, que se debe evitar el sufrimiento, que este es una se al de que la vida sali mal. Desde Arist teles hasta las nuevas lecturas del estoicismo, los fil sofos han formulado teor as de la buena vida ... Read More about La Vida Es Dura: Filosofía Para Encontrar Nuestro Camino

Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? The thought that we can is beset by sceptical problems. In the face of radical disagreement, can we be sure that we are not deceived? If the facts are independent of what we think, is our reliab... Read More about Knowing Right from Wrong

Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "Why should I be moral?" and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. In Reasons without Rationalism, Kieran Setiya shows that these doubts rest on a mistake. The "should" of practical reason cannot be understood apart from the virtues ... Read More about Reasons Without Rationalism