What Is the Good Life?
Contributors: Lydia G. Cochrane (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226244532
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; General; Philosophy / General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Conduct of life; Success
Description: "In What Is the Good Life? Luc Ferry argues that the question of the meaning of life, on which much philosophical debate throughout the centuries rested, has not vanished, but rather 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 this 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."--Jacket.