Is Life Actually Worth Living?

  • Author: Sam Harris
  • Narrator: Sam Harris
  • Publisher: SAGA Egmont
  • Duration: 1:54:04
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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.David Benatar is Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence and The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.

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