Life: A User’s Manual: Philosophy for (Almost) Any Eventuality

✍ Scribed by Julian Baggini; Antonia Macaro

• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How should I live?
What is my purpose?
Can I find happiness?

Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.

Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre.

Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like:
Is there a right way to grieve?
What is free will?
How can we learn from past mistakes?
Do we make our own luck?

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
About the Author
Also by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro
Introduction
A
Acceptance
Achievement
Addiction
Afterlife
Ageing
Aloneness
Alternative Medicine
Altruism
Ambition
Ambivalence
Anger
Anxiety
Appreciation
Argument
Asceticism
Assisted Dying
Authenticity
Authority
B
Bad Faith
Balance
Reading
Beautification
Bereavement
Betrayal
Blame
The Body
Boredom
Busyness
C
Calm
Career
Carpe Diem
Change
Character
Charity
Children
Choice
Commitment
Community
Companion Animals
Compassion
Competition
Consent
Consumerism
Contentment
Control
Cosmic Insignificance
Courage
Craft
D
Dating
Death
Decision-Making
Depression
Desires
Dilemmas
Disappointment
Divorce
Doubt
Duty
E
Education
Embarrassment
Emotions
Empathy
The Environment
Envy
Euthanasia
Evidence
Evil
F
Failure
Faith
Fame
Family
Fate
Fear
Fear of Missing Out
Feelings
Food and Drink
Forgiveness
Freedom
Free Will
Friendship
Frugality
Frustration
G
God
Gossip
Gratitude
Guilt and Shame
H
Habits
Happiness
Health and Illness
Home
Hope
Human Nature
Humility
I
Identity
Idleness
Illness
Impostor Syndrome
Indecision
Infidelity
Inner Life
Insecurity
Integrity
Intuition
Irrationality
J
Jealousy
Joy
Justice
K
Kindness
Knowledge
L
Leisure
Loneliness
Loss
Love
Love of Life
Loyalty
Luck
Lying
M
Meaning
Melancholy
Memory
Mental Health
Midlife Crisis
Mindfulness
Mistakes
Moderation
Money
Monogamy
Moods
Mortality
Motivation
N
Narcissism
Nature
Needs
Neighbours
Noise
O
Objectification
Office Politics
Optimism
Other People
P
Pain
Parenthood
Patriotism
Perfectionism
Perseverance
Pessimism
Pets
Play
Pleasure
Politics
Polyamory
Pornography
Potential
Pride
Problems
Protest
Purpose
R
Rationality
Regret
Relationships
Relaxation
Religion
Reputation
Resilience
Responsibility
Retirement
Right and Wrong
Risk
Routine
S
Sadness
Security
Self-Absorption
Self-Actualisation
Self-Care
Self-Confidence
Self-Control
Self-Deception
Self-Esteem
Self-Knowledge
Self-Love
Selfishness
Sex
Shame
Silence
Simplicity
Sleep
Slowing Down
Social media
Solitude
Stress
Success
Suffering
Suicide
Supernatural
Superstition
T
Temptation
Tolerance
Travel
Trust
Truth
U
Uncertainty
Unconscious
Unemployment
V
Values
Vanity
Vegetarianism
Virtual Life
Virtue
Vulnerability
W
War
Weakness of Will
Wealth
Willpower
Wisdom
Work
Work-Life Balance
Worrying
Zest
Philosophy: Where to Start
Index
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