The question How should we live? is one that many ask in a crisis, jolted out of normal patterns of life. But that question is not always a simple request for a straightforward answer, as if we could somehow read off the ‘correct’ answer from the world. This sort of question can be like a pain that requires a response that soothes as much as it resolves.
It is not obvious that academic philosophy can address such a question adequately. As the Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita has , such a question emerges from deep within us all, from our humanity, and, as such, we share a common calling in coming to an answer.
Academia often misses the point here, ignoring the depth, and responding as if problems about the meaning of life were logical
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