An edition of Worldly wisdom
(2007)
Worldly wisdom
Great Books and the meanings of life
by James Sloan Allen
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Worldly Wisdom: Great Books And the Meanings of Life
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Worldly wisdom: Great Books and the meanings of life
2007, Frederic C. Beil
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Table of Contents
The tragic sense of life and the dawn of humanism
Control yourself
What do you know? How do you know it? Why should you care?
Living the good life
The moral landscape of Hell
Growing up naturally
Enough? Never!
From the maggot man to the superman
Condemned to be free
Find the right way, do the right thing
How to succeed in the business of life
So it seems
The price of mis-education
Democracy as a way of life
Through a class darkly
We shall overcome
The psychology of everyday life
It's party time : the ethics of civility
The morality and immorality of art
All stories are true
How beautiful, how sad
The uses of idealism
The gifts of imagination
Fantasies of seduction and the seductions of fantasy
Art for life's sake
Of love and marriage, passion and aging.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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