Paperback "The Meaning of Life" – Engelsk | The School of Life

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En praktisk guide til et af de største spørgsmål, vi nogensinde vil stå overfor.

At tænke for åbent eller intenst over livets mening kan virke som en ejendommelig, ulykkelig og svagt latterlig beskæftigelse. Det kan fremstå som et emne, hvor almindelige dødelige ikke kan gøre store fremskridt. I virkeligheden er det op til os alle at stille spørgsmålet, definere det og arbejde hen imod en mere meningsfuld tilværelse.

Denne bog The Meaning of Life fra The School of Life undersøger en række muligheder for, hvor meningen med livet kan findes, herunder kærlighed, familie, venskab, arbejde, selvindsigt og natur. Vi lærer, hvorfor visse ting føles meningsfulde, mens andre ikke gør, og overvejer, hvordan vi kan bringe mere mening ind i vores aktiviteter. Den efterfølges af et enormt tankeeksperiment og en praktisk guide til et af de største spørgsmål, vi nogensinde vil blive konfronteret med.

Kapitler inkluderer:
  • Kilder til mening
  1. Kærlighed
  2. Familie
  3. Arbejde
  4. Venskab
  5. Kultur
  6. Politik
  7. Natur
  8. Filosofi
  • Hindringer for mening
  1. Vag selvforståelse
  2. Provinsialisme
  3. Selvopofrelse
  4. Udødelighed
  5. Kunsten at fortælle historier

Uddrag fra bogen:

On Meaningful Work
"We are taught by economics to think for ourselves as, for the most part, selfish creatures. It can seem as if what we primarily want from work is money. What is far more striking is the extent to which we require work to be - as we put it - 'meaningful'. A job can pay well and offer immense prestige, but, unless is it meaningful, it may eventually stifle us and crush our spirits."

On Meaning from Family
"One of the things that makes families so important and so meaningful is that they are centers of unashamed nepotism. We are used to thinking negatively of nepotism. We are taught that a good society is one in which people rise and fall according to their own merits or flaws, and do not gain unfair favour from their families. But, in a crucial emotional sense at least, most of us don't actually believe this. We are all, more or less, emotional nepotists."

On Meaning from Friendship
"Friendship should be an important center of meaning, and yet it is also a routinely disappointing reality. The key to the problem of friendship is found in an odd-sounding place: we lack a sense of purpose. Our attempts at friendship tend to go adrift because we collectively resist the task of developing a clear picture of what friendship should really be for."

Indhold: Paperback | 118 sider
Størrelse: 20 x 13 cm
Sprog: Engelsk

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