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Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’

8 mins | May 15, 2020
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To really find an answer, we need to first understand how and why is the question being asked. "Questions about the meaning of life and others of a similar kind are often misconstrued by those too ready to think of them as straightforward requests for an objective true answer." PhD and tutor in philosophy and religion, Dave Ellis, explores in Aeon magazine.

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