Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How Should We Live?
John Kekes · 2014
76/100
👍 Worth It
Kekes writes philosophy for adults who actually want to think carefully about Monday-morning decisions, not just seminar room thought experiments, and the Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews endorsement signals this is the real thing. The deliberately inconclusive pluralism frustrates readers who want a system, but that's also the honest intellectual position. Thoughtful general readers willing to sit with open-ended questions will find it genuinely rewarding.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety85
substance82
craft80
originality72
accuracy80
hype85
age-fit80
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict76
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