A review by maddness22
Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help us Find our Way by Kieran Setiya

hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

I loved this read! I felt like the re-framing of concepts such as friendship, hope, chronic illness, and treating life as a series of small events rather than a long ever lasting narrative with a definitive arc were really well done. There's a lot of concepts and quotes introduced in this book for me that will likely stick with me for a long time. The introduction warns that the book will contain a bleak outlook that doesn't gloss over the hardships of life, but it's far from pessimistic in my reading of it. I even feel more confident with how to handle hardships in life from reading this book due to the pragmatic nature. Not a bad little surprise I picked up from the library on a whim because it was cold out lol