Kieran Setiya

Life Is Hard

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    Life is not a narrative “that swells and tautens until climax”; it’s not all about getting things done. Responsibility for justice need not rest on blame
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    Love need not be earned; grief is no
    mistake; and the tempering of grief is not betrayal.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Other concepts we should leave behind: the concept of the best life as a guideline or a goal, of being happy as the human good, of self-interest divorced from the good of others.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    Again, the question is not whether to hope but what for. We can hope that life has meaning: a slow, unsteady march toward a more just future.
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    There are limits to hope, and death is one.
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    In the spirit of this book, the answer’s not an ideal life. What we need is acknowledgment and close reading of the lives we have.
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    The question, then, is not whether to hope but what we should hope for.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    The virtue of hoping well is a matter of belief, of standing with or searching for the truth, attending to what’s possible.
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    The point of clinging to possibility is not to feel good—hope may be more painful than despair—but to keep the flicker of potential agency alive.
  • Jan Nohas quoted2 years ago
    To hope well is to be realistic about probabilities, not to succumb to wishful thinking or be cowed by fear; it is to hold possibilities open when you should.
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