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    #107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?

    #107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?

    FromMaking Sense with Sam Harris

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    #107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?

    FromMaking Sense with Sam Harris

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    Length:
    49 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 6, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Benatar about his philosophy of “anti-natalism." They discuss the asymmetry between the good and bad things in life, the ethics of existential risk, the moral landscape, the limits and paradoxes of introspection, the “experience machine” thought experiment, population ethics, and other topics. You can support the Making Sense podcast and receive subscriber-only content at samharris.org/subscribe.
    Released:
    Dec 6, 2017
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, Free Will, Lying, Waking Up, and Islam and the Future of Tolerance (with Maajid Nawaz). The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. His writing has been published in more than 20 languages. Mr. Harris and his work have been discussed in The New York Times, Time, Scientific American, Nature, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many other journals. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, Newsweek, The Times (London), The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Annals of Neurology, and elsewhere. Mr. Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA.