Living for Pleasure
An Epicurean Guide to Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
Emily Austin walks readers through exactly how Epicureanism might help them in daily life in practical, practicable ways: valuing friendships, giving advice, combatting imposter syndrome, pursuing life goals, and thinking about everything from dinner parties to sex, drugs, dying, and disease.
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Emily Austin walks readers through exactly how Epicureanism might help them in daily life in practical, practicable ways: valuing friendships, giving advice, combatting imposter syndrome, pursuing life goals, and thinking about everything from dinner parties to sex, drugs, dying, and disease.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Living for Pleasure “
- Chapter 1: Maybe We're Doing It Wrong
- Chapter 2: Epicureanism, The Original Cast
- Chapter 3: Happiness, Theirs and Ours
- Chapter 4: Why Hedonism?
- Chapter 5: What do you want?
- Chapter 6: The Fourfold Remedy
- Chapter 7: Why Can't We Be Friends?
- Chapter 8: Let Me Be Frank
- Chapter 9: Why Be Just?
- Chapter 10: Imposter Syndrome
- Chapter 11: Living Unnoticed: Politics and Power
- Chapter 12: Living Unnoticed: The Tyranny of the 'Like'
- Chapter 13: Wealth and What it Costs
- Chapter 14: Ambition, Work, and Success
- Chapter 15: Greed for Life
- Chapter 16: Misfortune and Resilience
- Chapter 17: Of Sex, Love, and Harmless Pleasure
- Chapter 18: Building the Tranquil Child
- Chapter 19: Drugs and Other Short Cuts
- Chapter 20: Foodies, Dinner Parties, and Wine Snobs
- Chapter 21: Science and Anxiety
- Chapter 22: That Old Time Religion
- Chapter 23: Experiencing Death
- Chapter 24: Pandemics and Other Comforting Horrors
- Chapter 25: On Practicing Epicureanism
Autoren-Porträt von Emily A. Austin
Emily A. Austin is Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University. She earned her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in Ancient Greek Philosophy.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Emily A. Austin
- 2023, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 18,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0197558321
- ISBN-13: 9780197558324
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.02.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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