TITLE:
Middle Age: Setiya’s Philosophical Reflections
AUTHORS:
Ivan William Kelly
KEYWORDS:
Middle Age, Midlife, Midlife Crisis, Meaning of Life
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Philosophy,
Vol.8 No.4,
June
26,
2018
ABSTRACT: Philosophers often focus on topics such as death and old age, and much less on other stages of life. The British-American philosopher Kienan Setiya (2017) has recently taken on the topic of middle age from a philosophical perspective and offered suggestions for dealing with the angst often associated with mid-age. His suggestions are based on both his own experiences and practical thoughts based on his readings of other philosophers during their mid-life periods. My own contribution is to describe his thoughts and add a few observations of my own.