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Kieran Setiya, Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022, pp. xii + 222, ISBN: 978-1529151213

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  1. Lucian, On Mourning—expertly discussed by David Konstan, “The Grieving Self: Reflections on Lucian’s On Mourning and the Consolatory Tradition,” in Han Baltussen (ed.), Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2012), pp. 139–152.

  2. Roderick M. Chisholm, Brentano and Intrinsic Value (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), Ch. 6.

  3. Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd,” in his Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 23.

  4. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 35.

  5. Robert Mackey, “Joe Biden’s Empty Rhetoric about Hope and History,” The Intercept 20 July 2022, https://theintercept.com/2022/07/20/biden-israel-palestine-seamus-heaney-hope-history/.

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Cullity, . Kieran Setiya, Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way. Soc 60, 824–826 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00885-2

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