Mattering and Belonging
Now playing · Sat Oct 17 · 3:30pm
Mattering and Belonging
Philosophers Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Ian Marcus Corbin discuss belonging and the desire to matter. Goldstein’s The Mattering Instinct argues that the need to matter drives great achievements and can also lead to great evil; Corbin, director of Harvard’s Public Culture Project, calls in To Arrive Where We Started for a return to gratitude, humility and friendship. MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya, author of Life Is Hard, hosts.