What Is the Good Life?University of Chicago Press, 15.6.2005 - 320 sivua Has inquiry into the meaning of life become outmoded in a universe where the other-worldiness of religion no longer speaks to us as it once did, or, as Nietzsche proposed, where we are now the creators of our own value? Has the ancient question of the "good life" disappeared, another victim of the technological world? For Luc Ferry, the answer to both questions is a resounding no. In What Is the Good Life? Ferry argues that the question of the meaning of life, on which much philosophical debate throughout the centuries has rested, has not vanished, but at the very least the question is posed differently today. Ferry points out the pressures in our secularized world that tend to reduce the idea of a successful life or "good life" to one of wealth, career satisfaction, and prestige. Without deserting the secular presuppositions of our world, he shows that we can give ourselves a richer sense of life's possibilities. The "good life" consists of harmonizing life's different forces in a way that enables one to achieve a sense of personal satisfaction in the realization of one's creative abilities. |
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Success Ennui Envy | 1 |
Metamorphoses of the Ideal | 15 |
The Good Life as the Most Intense Life | 47 |
Life in Harmony with the Cosmic Order | 133 |
PART IV The Here Now Enchanted by the Beyond | 183 |
The Good Life as a Life in Harmony with the Human Condition | 247 |
NOTES | 289 |
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