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E-book The Things That Really Matter : Philosophical conversations on the cornerstones of life

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There are many reasons why I liked Mary so much, as a person, a writer and a philosopher. I liked her for her wit, her warmth, her level- headedness and her moral clarity; her ability to steer clear of all unnecessary technicalities and cut straight to the chase, focusing on the big picture rather than getting mired in the details of any particular argument – which is an occupational hazard for us academic philosophers because it can all too easily become an end in itself. Mary knew what’s what, neatly separating the wheat of our common ways of thinking – in philosophy, science and life – from the chaff. She had little patience for what she liked to call ‘humbug’. Using vivid, striking images and com-parisons to illustrate the points she wanted to make, she encouraged her readers to think hard about what really mattered and why it mattered.One of the things that really matters is, according to her, philos-ophy itself, which is ‘not just grand and elegant and difficult, it is also needed’.1 Philosophers have an important and indeed essential job to do. Their ‘business is not – as some people mistakenly think – merely to look inward. It is to organize what concerns everybody. Philosophy aims to bring together those aspects of life that have not yet been properly con-nected so as to make a more coherent, more workable world- picture. And that coherent world- picture is not a private luxury. It’s something we all need for our lives. In fact, we all have some kind of world- picture already, which informs how we think and feel about things, what we value, what facts we consider relevant and what we make of them, and then also, as a result of all this, how we live our lives. The trouble is that our picture of the world, the pattern of thought that guides us through life, tends to be rather confused and full of blind spots and contradictions. It lacks coherence and clarity and often gets things wrong, which is not surpris-ing since the world is complex and indeed confusing in its complexity. So while we may all have our own personal philosophy of life – which of course we may share with many others – we don’t always have a good one. But even good philosophies are usually one- sided: ‘Even the most useful, the most vital of such patterns of thought, has its limits. They all need to be balanced and corrected against each other.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

170 HAU t

Penerbit

London : UCL Press., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

307 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781800082175

Klasifikasi

170

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Ethics, Moral Philosophy

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