Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value
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Book Overview
Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:087220782X
ISBN13:9780872207820
Release Date:March 2006
Publisher:Hackett Publishing Company
Length:158 Pages
Weight:0.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I was looking for a text on virtue ethics to have my high school philosophy students read and stumbled upon this. I was also reading and thinking about Borgmann's work on excellence and focal practices and Csikszentmihalyi's work on flow. This brings together the best work from psychology and eastern and western views on the good. The text is the best middle-road philosophy text I've ever come across. The arguments are precise and detailed which take it above the scale of non-philosophical book, but they are clear and concise which also keep the text in the real of non-philosophers. It allows the arguments to work their way deep into your thinking, and I can honestly say that the text has formed a permanent part of my worldview. Given how broad the topic, its effects are far-reaching. [...]
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