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Joy in the Morning

Kieran Setiya · 18 Oct 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Feeling happy is not the same as living well.

    Their wordsA mantra for the philosophy of self-help: feeling happy is not the same as living well.

  2. Our reading

    Feeling bad at bad news is part of facing the facts and part of living well.

    Their wordsBetter to cite the mundane reality that, other things equal, we should feel bad when we hear bad news. This is what it means to face the facts, as we do when we grieve the lost; and it is part of living well.

  3. Our reading

    We need rites of mourning to guide grief where reasons cannot.

    Their wordsThe problem is practical as well as intellectual: we need rites of mourning to guide our grief where reasons don’t.

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