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I had been enduring a crisis of meaning. I wanted to live a life that mattered, to do things that were valuable – and I was increasingly haunted by the suspicion that nothing really mattered, that everything was ultimately meaningless.
Pranay Sanklecha • I left academia in the summer of 2022. Since then, I do philosophy in the world
“an individual person has a set of desires, concerns or, as I shall call them, projects, which help to constitute a character”; these “ground projects [provide] the motive force which propels him into the future, and gives him a reason for living.”
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
For instance, Wolf, the doyenne of the field, proposes the theory that ‘meaningfulness consists in active engagement in projects or activities of worth’. She recognises the threat of nihilism and accepts that her theory ‘would be utterly destroyed if it turned out there were no such things as projects or activities of worth at all’. Her response is
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The longer I spent trying to figure out what would be valuable to other people, the more lost I became
Pranay Sanklecha • I left academia in the summer of 2022. Since then, I do philosophy in the world
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”