On Settling
"Mr. Goodin'sOn Settlingis a brief and gentle meditation on a subject that is larger and more controversial than it may at first seem."--Daniel Akst,Wall Street Journal"Goodin's gentle little book is brimming with intelligence, sense, and humanity, and he makes a lot of progress toward understanding a concept that has received far too little attention."--Cass Sunstein,New Republic"[I]t may be of more use than most self-help works on the topic combined. . . . Goodin's argument is liberating."--Oliver Burkeman,Guardian"Goodin'sOn Settlingmay be an economical 74 pages plus footnotes and index but, intellectually speaking, is no mere hors d'oeuvre."--Chris Wallace,Canberra Times"This little book is an exercise in settling, not only a discussion of it, for Goodin has a lot more wisdom to share than he can capture in seventy-four pages. But the result of his effort is a manifestly important and worthy contribution to philosophical reflection, and no less so because it settled for being simply that rather than aspiring to say the first or last word on the subject."--David Schmidtz,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews