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Life Is Hard
This episode explores how acknowledging life's unavoidable difficulties, rather than resisting them, can unlock deeper meaning and resilience.
“This episode explores how acknowledging life's unavoidable difficulties, rather than resisting them, can unlock deeper meaning and resilience.”
— Kieran Setiya, Life Is Hard
Meaning, Suffering, Resilience, Philosophy
If you've ever felt guilty for struggling, or believed that a truly good life means the absence of pain, this will feel familiar a profound reorientation.
Kieran Setiya, a philosopher at MIT, brings a rare blend of intellectual rigor and compassionate insight to the universal experience of suffering, offering a framework for understanding hardship not as a flaw, but as a fundamental aspect of being human.