As well as drawing fine-grained distinctions and ... And our lives are better for acknowledging that. Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya, Cornerstone £16. ...

What was the point of life? How would ... One might wonder if all that philosophy was really necessary. Setiya has the whole history of thought at his disposal. Drawing on Heidegger, he could ...

Commenting on a poem by Uhland called “Count Eberhard’s Hawthorn” (that without any embellishment, drawing ... examined life” – then the answer to the question “what is philosophy?” ...

When your child asks a deep question like “What’s the meaning of life ... in philosophy, start a conversation with them about the concepts they’re encountering. If they’re drawing ...

As one student suggested to me, the survey inquiry about developing a “meaningful philosophy of life” may simply have been “too boring” and hackneyed to grip many of his peers. In fact ...