Midlife (eBook)

A Philosophical Guide

Kieran Setiya (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8847-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle ageHow can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps.Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.

Autor

Kieran Setiya is professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Reasons without Rationalism (Princeton) and Knowing Right from Wrong. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and son.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Schlagworte: A Book Of • accountant • Adoption • affair • Altruism • Anatta • aphorism • Aristotle • Arthur Schopenhauer • awareness • Bernard Williams • Boredom • Buddhism • Cambridge University Press • Career • cognitive therapy • Consciousness • Death anxiety (psychology) • Derek Parfit • Elliott Jaques • Emptiness • epicurus • Equanimity • ethics • Existence • existential crisis • Explanation • Felicific calculus • Four Noble Truths • Generosity • Grief • Hedonism • Immanuel Kant • injunction • Irony • I Wish (manhwa) • James Mill • Jean-Paul Sartre • Jeremy Bentham • John Stuart Mill • Lecture • Literature • Lucretius • meaningful life • middle age • Midlife Crisis • narrative • Neglect • Nicomachean Ethics • Oppression • optimism • parenting • Parerga and Paralipomena • personal history • phenomenon • Philip Larkin • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physician • Pleasure • Poetry • Polemic • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Prose • Protest • psychologist • Psychology • Quantity • Rationality • reason • retrograde amnesia • Risk Aversion • sadness • Satisficing • self-consciousness • Self-Help Book • Self-Interest • Shame • Simone de Beauvoir • skepticism • Suffering • Suggestion • Symptom • The Myth of Sisyphus • theory • The Other Hand • The Power of Now • Thought • Thought experiment • Toothache • Uncertainty • Understanding • Utilitarianism • Virginia Woolf • Wealth • well-being • wishful thinking • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8847-6 / 1400888476
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8847-4 / 9781400888474