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Life Is Short

- An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
Af: Dean Rickles Engelsk Paperback

Life Is Short

- An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
Af: Dean Rickles Engelsk Paperback
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Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of its meaning—and how this insight is the key to making the most of the time we do have. Life Is Short explores how death limits our options and forces us to make choices that forge a life and give the world meaning. But people often live in a state of indecision, in a misguided attempt to keep their options open. This provisional way of living—always looking elsewhere, to the future, to other people, to other ways of being, and never committing to what one has or, alternatively, putting in the time and energy to achieve what one wants—is a big mistake, and Life Is Short tells readers how to avoid this trap. By reminding us how extraordinary it is that we have any time to live at all, Life Is Short challenges us to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it.
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Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints—and death is the ultimate constraint—make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of its meaning—and how this insight is the key to making the most of the time we do have. Life Is Short explores how death limits our options and forces us to make choices that forge a life and give the world meaning. But people often live in a state of indecision, in a misguided attempt to keep their options open. This provisional way of living—always looking elsewhere, to the future, to other people, to other ways of being, and never committing to what one has or, alternatively, putting in the time and energy to achieve what one wants—is a big mistake, and Life Is Short tells readers how to avoid this trap. By reminding us how extraordinary it is that we have any time to live at all, Life Is Short challenges us to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 136
ISBN-13: 9780691240619
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0691240612
Udg. Dato: 14 jan 2025
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 204mm
Højde: 131mm
Forlag: Princeton University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 jan 2025
Forfatter(e): Dean Rickles
Forfatter(e) Dean Rickles


Kategori Etik og moralfilosofi


ISBN-13 9780691240619


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 136


Udgave


Længde 11mm


Bredde 204mm


Højde 131mm


Udg. Dato 14 jan 2025


Oplagsdato 14 jan 2025


Forlag Princeton University Press

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