This is a largely successful book if one is looking not so much for all the answers, but for some ideas of how to change one’s thinking about this time in life.
As he is a philosophy professor, he is, one could argue, fairly well-suited to explore the larger questions around life and what it means as we continue into the second half of our lives.Īnd I think he is. Author Setiya is approaching 40 and has started to feel what many do when they approach mid-life: a sense of malaise. This fairly short exploration of mid-life is lightly humorous and well-written. I’m turning 40 next year and I enjoy studying philosophy. You are not on the way to achieving a goal. “There is no more to going for a walk than what you are doing right now. “There is consolation in the fact that missing out is an inexorable side effect of the richness of human life.” Why can’t I be more grateful for what I have? But this is my life.” “I recognize the luxury of the midlife crisis, with a degree of guilt and shame.
Philosopher Kieran Setiya, as he approached mid-life, decided to explore ways philosophy might help him power through - or even stave off - a crisis. Those who enjoy a philosophical approach to things, and those who are approaching middle age.
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