Six Myths about the Good Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Myths about the Good Life write by Joel J. Kupperman. This book was released on 2006-03-15. Six Myths about the Good Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken simply and generally they all miss out on something. Six Myths about the Good Life explores what they miss and, in the process, gives a sense of what a good life can be.
Six Myths about the Good Life
Six Myths about the Good Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Six Myths about the Good Life write by Joel Kupperman. This book was released on 2008. Six Myths about the Good Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives
Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives write by Randolph Feezell. This book was released on 2020-04-01. Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There's more to sports than the ethos of competition, entertainment, and commercialism expressed in popular media and discourse. Sport, Philosophy, and Good Lives discusses sport in the context of several traditional philosophical questions, including: What is a good human life and how does sport factor into it? To whom do we look for ethical guidance? What makes human activities or projects meaningful? Randolph Feezell examines these questions along with other relevant topics in the philosophy of sport such as the contribution of play to a meaningful life, the various reasons for pessimistic views of sport, the various claims that celebrated athletes are role models, and the seldom-questioned view that coaches are in a position to offer advice to athletes on how to live or on leadership skills. He also discusses the way that non-Western attitudes found in Buddhism, Taoism, and the Bhagavad Gita might be used to address the vulnerabilities of sports participants. Feezell draws from current sports issues, popular literature, and contemporary sports figures to shed light on the attraction and value of sports and examine the accompanying ethical issues.
Perspectives on Happiness
Perspectives on Happiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Happiness write by Søren Harnow Klausen. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Perspectives on Happiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work explores the phenomenon of happiness from a variety of angles. The papers discuss the nature and conditions of happiness, methodological questions, policies and discourses, and the significance of specific factors, like landscapes or educational environments, for happiness.
Managing Monsters
Managing Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Monsters write by Marina Warner. This book was released on 2010-11-30. Managing Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination. She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current despair about children and the loss of childhood innocence; the changing attitude of myths about wild men and beasts and the undertow of racism which is expressed in myths about savages and cannibals. The last lecture, on home, brings the themes together to examine ideas about who we are and where we belong, with reference to the British nation and its way of telling its own history. Using a range of examples from video games to Turner's paintings, from popular films to Keats, Marina Warner interweaves her critique of fantasy, dream and prejudice.
