Seeking Your Better Self

Timely Virtues for a Turbulent World

Jeff Nesteruk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2026
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-1-394-32873-4 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1. An Invitation to Ethical Reflection

1.1.1.Wobbly Moments

1.1.2.The Story I Want to Tell

1.1.3. Ethics as Relationships

1.1.4.The Four Fundamental Relationships

1.1.5.Raising Your Moral Sights

1.1.6.Beginning Where You Are

1.1.7.Bringing Your Whole Self

1.2. Tapping the Life-Enhancing Power of Reflection

1.2.1.Our Out-of-Kilter Lives

1.2.2.Keeping Reflection at Bay

1.2.3.The Hard Work of Reflection

1.3. Starting with the Virtues

1.3.1.A Preview of the Four Virtues

1.3.2.Clarity of Thought

1.3.3.Deepening of Emotion

1.3.4.Expansion of Perception

1.3.5.Affirmation of Hope

2. Chapter 2: Our Relationship with Ourselves Holistic Mind

2.1. Becoming Yourself

2.1.1.It’s Complicated

2.1.2.First- and Second-Order Desires

2.1.3.Claiming Yourself

2.1.3.1. Systemized Self

2.1.3.2. Serialized Self

2.1.3.3. Dramatized Self

2.2. Your Ethical Self

2.2.1.Dynamics in Play

2.2.2.Achieving Your Ethical Self

2.2.3.Developing Your Narrative Self

2.3. The Relationship of Your Desire to Your Own Happiness

2.3.1.Your Pursuit of Happiness

2.3.1.1. Happiness as Satisfying Your Desires

2.3.1.2. Happiness as Having the Right Desires

2.3.1.3. Happiness as Overcoming Your Desires

2.3.1.4. But Can You Ever Truly Know Your Desires?

2.3.2.Reflecting on Your Desires

2.3.3.From Your Desires to Your Thoughts

2.4. The Relationships of Your Principles to Your Judgments

2.4.1.Reflective Equilibrium

2.4.2.Contradiction as the Stimulus for Personal Growth

2.4.3.Some Exercises

2.4.4.Tell the Truth

2.4.5.Keep Your Promises and Treat Everyone Equally

2.4.6.Personalizing Reflective Equilibrium

2.5. Topical Reflections

2.5.1.Joy

2.5.2.Stress

2.5.3.Boredom

2.5.4.Work

2.5.5.Mistakes

2.5.6.Weariness

3. Chapter 3: Our Relationship with Others Empathetic Heart

3.1. Discovering Your Social Self

3.1.1.From Integrity to Empathy

3.1.2.Evading the Ego Trap

3.1.3.An Undercurrent of Loneliness

3.1.4.Our Precarious Common World

3.1.5.Transformational Communities

3.2. Friendship

3.2.1.Reflecting upon Friendship

3.2.2.Three Types of Friendship

3.2.2.1. Friendship Based on Pleasure

3.2.2.2. Friendship Based on Utility

3.2.2.3. Friendship Based on Virtue

3.2.3.Working Toward an Empathetic Heart

3.3. Beyond Friendship: From the Familiar to the Far Off

3.3.1.Extending Your Empathy

3.3.2.A Dip into Ethical Theory

3.3.3.An Example to Get You Started

3.3.4.Three Ethical Theories

3.3.4.1. Bentham on the Consequences of a Person’s Actions

3.3.4.2. Kant on a Person’s Actions

3.3.4.3. Aristotle on a Person’s Character

3.4. Topical Reflections

3.4.1.Friends

3.4.2.Conversation

3.4.3.Forgiveness

3.4.4.Sacrifice

4. Chapter 4: Our Relationship with Things Attentive Eye

4.1. Developing Your Attentive Eye

4.1.1.Unsimple Simplicity

4.1.2.Expanding Your Perceptions Outward

4.1.3.A Doing-Something-Different Challenge

4.1.4.Expanding Your Perceptions Inward

4.1.5.Using Your Imagination

4.2. Possessions, Practices, Places

4.2.1.Nudges

4.2.2.Possession and a Culture of More

4.2.2.1. Quantitative Measurements and Qualitative Judgments

4.2.2.2. Asking the Why Question

4.2.2.3. Personalizing the “Why” Question

4.2.2.4. You Have More Possessions than You Know

4.2.3.Practices

4.2.3.1. Taking in the Array of Practices

4.2.3.2. Private Routines

4.2.3.3. Group Rituals

4.2.3.4. Social Practices

4.2.4.Places

4.2.4.1. Your Places of Insight

4.2.5.Artificial Intelligence

4.3. The Moral Risks of Your Moral Tilts

4.3.1.Discerning Moral Risks

4.3.2.Misfocused: The Distortion of Attention

4.3.3.Teleopathy in Your Own Life?

4.3.4.Unfocused: The Distraction of Attention

4.3.5.Discerning Purpose

4.3.6.Recognizing Your Distractions

4.4. Topical Reflections

4.4.1.Details

4.4.2.Home

4.4.3.Self-Image

4.4.4.Artificial Intelligence

5. Chapter 5: Our Relationship with That Which is Greater than Ourselves Open Spirit

5.1. Your Self-Transcending Nature

5.1.1.Gettig Unstuck

5.1.2.From the Problems In Your Life to the Purpose of Your life

5.1.3.A Striking Quality of Consciousness

5.1.4.Turning to Spirituality

5.1.5.That Which is Greater than Ourselves

5.1.6.Engaging Spirituality Together

5.2. First-Person Spiritual Experiences

5.2.1.Jane Goodall, Scientist

5.2.2.Paul Simon, Singer/Songwriter

5.2.3.Oprah Winfrey, TV Host

5.2.4.Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut

5.3. The Misguided Attempt for Clear and Distinct Ideas, or Why Descartes Was Wrong

5.3.1.Knowing Ourselves as Subjects

5.3.2.Living Our Lives as Objects

5.3.3.Illusive Certainty

5.4. Pointers, Intimations, and the Ineffable in Our Lives

5.4.1.Articulating the Ineffable

5.4.2.Poetic Language

5.5. A Personal Peace that Surpasses My Understanding

5.5.1.Wisdom for an Open Spirit

5.5.2.Discerning Purpose

5.5.3.Virtues as Gifts

5.5.4.“Drives” and “Callings”

5.6. Topical Reflections

5.6.1.Worship

5.6.2.Sleep

5.6.3.Thinking

5.6.4.Interruptions

5.6.5.Time

5.6.6.Wonder

6. Chapter 6: Conclusion – And Now What?

6.1. Endings as Beginnings

6.1.1.Knowing for the First Time

6.1.2.Your Undertaking as an Ethical Journey

6.1.3.Wobbly Moments

6.1.4.Ethical Reflection

6.1.5.Guiding Virtues

6.1.6.Discerning Purpose

6.1.7.Putting It All Together

6.1.8.Endings as Beginnings

6.2. The Power of Stories

6.2.1.Owning Your Life

6.3. Telling Your Own Story

6.3.1.Stepping Out

6.3.2.Step One – Wobbly Moments

6.3.3.Step Two – Ethical Reflection

6.3.4.Step Three – Guiding Virtues

6.3.5.Step Four – Discerning Purpose

6.4. And Now What?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.6.2026
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-394-32873-7 / 1394328737
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-32873-4 / 9781394328734
• Zustand: Neuware