Hauskeller, Michael;
(2022)
The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
While being rooted in the academic discourse, The Things That Really Matter comprehensively explores the most fundamental aspects of human life in an accessible, non-technical language, adding fresh perspectives and new arguments and considerations that are designed to stimulate further debate and, in some cases, a deliberate redirection of research interests in the respective areas. It features a series of conversations about the things in our life that we all, in one way or another, wrestle with if we are at all concerned about what kind of world we live in and what our role in it is: things like birth, age, and death, good and evil, the meaning of life, the nature of the self and the role the body plays for our identity, our gendered existence, love and faith, free will, beauty, and our experience of the sacred. Situating abstract ideas in concrete experience, The Things That Really Matter encourages the reader to participate in an open-ended dialogue involving a variety of thinkers with different backgrounds and orientations. Lively and accessible, it shows thinking as an open-ended process and a collaborative endeavour that benefits from talking to each other rather than against each other, featuring real conversations, where ideas are explored, tested, changed, and occasionally dropped. It is thinking in motion, personal yet universal.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life |
| ISBN: | 9781800082175 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800082175 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082175 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Authors 2022 This book contains third-party copyright material that is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Nonderivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. If you wish to use the work commercially, use extracts or undertake translation you must seek permission from the author. Attribution should include the following information: Hauskeller, M. 2022. The Things That Really Matter: Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082175 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ |
| Keywords: | philosophy, ethics, morals, values, anthropology, society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147667 |
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