Rickles Dean
Rickles Dean - Life Is Short An Appropriately Brief Guide To Making It More Meaningful - Hardcover
Rickles Dean - Life Is Short An Appropriately Brief Guide To Making It More Meaningful - Hardcover
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Description: Why life's shortness more than anything else is what makes it meaningful Death 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.
Title: Life Is Short An Appropriately Brief Guide To Making It More Meaningful
Author(s): Rickles Dean
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691240596
Pages: 136 Pages, 2 B/W Illus. 1 Table.
Publication Date: 10/25/2022
Category: Self-Help & Personal Development
Description: Why life's shortness more than anything else is what makes it meaningful Death 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.
Title: Life Is Short An Appropriately Brief Guide To Making It More Meaningful
Author(s): Rickles Dean
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691240596
Pages: 136 Pages, 2 B/W Illus. 1 Table.
Publication Date: 10/25/2022
Category: Self-Help & Personal Development
