Philosophy and the Good Life with Sam Harris

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This is episode #295 of Making Sense. I listened to it while Cutting my own hair on 2023-09-15.

Summary

• Sam Harris talks to Kieran Setiya, an MIT philosophy professor, about moral ethics.
• Sam drags the topic back to existentialism a lot, and rambles, but I don’t mind it much.

What stuck with me

• The idea of Telic and atelic activities.
  • “Engaging with them shouldn’t extinguish them” — on atelic activities
  • We should have both kinds of goals.
• Reducing someone to an object of observation is one of the most uncomfortable things to do to someone.
  • Maybe the root of all uncomfortableness?
  • The best friendships are those where you don’t have to constantly ponder the perception of you in their eyes
    • Wow that connected some neurons in my brain writing that; added to Philosophy on dating