Kieran Setiya
British-born philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on ethics and the philosophy of mind; author of Midlife (2017) and Life Is Hard (2022); hosts the podcast Five Questions.
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Their wordsPhilosophy is not poetry, but prose.
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Their wordsOne of Johnstone’s most profound ideas, I think, is that we are inhibited by the idea of art as “self-expression”—and that we can disinhibit ourselves by thinking of ourselves as its medium, not its source.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsit’s true that we introduce new words, but we should resist the idea that mere “incompleteness” is a defect
↗‘it is a person’s privilege to go to hell’ksetiya.substack.com
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Their wordsA mantra for the philosophy of self-help: feeling happy is not the same as living well.
↗Joy in the Morningksetiya.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Joy in the Morningksetiya.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe problem is practical as well as intellectual: we need rites of mourning to guide our grief where reasons don’t.
↗Joy in the Morningksetiya.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSocratic irony is not detachment but a kind of faith.