Coping When Life is Hard: can philosophy help?
Two recent books - Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard and Luc Bovens's Coping - argue that it can. In this panel event, the authors talk to Susanne Burri and Jonathan Birch about their ideas.
Two recent books - Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard and Luc Bovens's Coping - argue that it can. In this panel event, the authors talk to Susanne Burri and Jonathan Birch about their ideas.
Wednesday 12 October 2022 | 1 hour 31 minutes 49 seconds
All human lives, even very comfortable ones, involve some degree of suffering and hardship. We face personal losses and traumas, and confront a world that seems full of injustice, misery and absurdity. Can philosophy help us to cope?