Philosophy cannot resolve the question 'How should we live?'

Dave Ellis

Philosophy cannot resolve the question 'How should we live?'

Dave Ellis

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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.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Week
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2020

Keywords

religious language
atheism
religion
Wittgenstein
spiritualism

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Philosophy cannot resolve the question ‘How should we live?’
Ellis, D., 1 May 2020, AEON.
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Philosophy cannot resolve the question 'How should we live?'

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

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