Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful

Rickles, Dean

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Princeton University Press, 2022

0691240590 / 9780691240596

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This brief book attempts to provide a 21st-century version of Seneca's classic essay, On the Shortness of Life. Like Seneca, Rickles seeks to motivate readers to meditate on how they use their time and offer some reasons why they mismanage this precious resource. Drawing on new developments in the understanding of time, the self, and human agency, in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and physics, Rickles's basic aim is to highlight the essential nature of the limit provided by death and the ways in which this fact gives life its meaning. The book will also point to a number of solutions (and potential pitfalls in these) aimed at using time more wisely. Throughout the book the focus is on a pair of competing personality styles that are found to be at the root of many of the problems Seneca unearthed, and can be associated with philosophical stances on personal identity and theories of time. These styles, commonly referred to in psychology as "Puer" and "Senex" are, respectively, the childish, present-focused type and the rational, future-focused, type. These styles relate in a fundamental way to how an individual reacts to being limited, whether by death or decision. The book will also deal with themes such as the concept of immortality; "diseases of time," such as the hyperbolic discounting leading us to devalue our futures; and strategies for using the short life well. The book concludes by showing that it is not life that has ultimate meaning but death, and this ultimate limit is where life derives whatever meaning it will have"-.…

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Titolo
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
Autore
Rickles, Dean
Editore
Princeton University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Condizione
New
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0691240590
ISBN 13
9780691240596

Lifeways Books and Gifts

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