#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Only the first 44 minutes of this episode are available on the paywalled podcast version (the black podcast logo). If you&rsquo;d like to hear the full 1 hour 56 minutes of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast, you&rsquo;ll need to SUBSCRIBE <a href="https://www.samharris.org/subscribe">here</a>. If you&rsquo;re already subscribed and on the private RSS feed, the podcast logo should appear red.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks to Kieran Setiya about the relevance of philosophy to living a good life. They discuss the existence of objective moral truths, being happy vs living well, our response to grief, the difference between "telic" and "atelic" activities, the power of reframing, FOMO, bias toward the future, regret, the asymmetry between pain and pleasure, and other topics.</span></p> <p><strong>Kieran Setiya</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His new book, </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qmayw7" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, comes out October 2022. He is the author of </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3B3IT88" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Midlife: A Philosophical Guide</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and his writing has appeared in the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los Angeles Review of Books</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Times Literary Supplement</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">London Review of Books</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><em>