| Description |
x, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Creating the good life : metamorphoses of the ideal -- Beyond morality, after religion : the new age of the question -- The meaning of the question and the slow humanization of the responses -- The Nietzschean moment : the good life as the most intense life -- On transcendence as supreme illusion, the twilight of the idols, or how to philosophize with a hammer : the end of the world, the death of God, and the death of man -- The foundations and arguments of Nietzschean materialism -- The wisdom of Nietzsche, or the three criteria of the good life : truth in art, intensity in the grand style, eternity in the present instant -- After Nietzsche, four versions of life after the death of God : daily life, the bohemian life, the life of enterprise, or life freed from alienation -- The wisdom of the ancients : life in harmony with the cosmic order -- Greek wisdom, or the first image of a lay spirituality : the secularization of salvation -- The cosmologico-ethical : power and the charms of moralities inscribed in the cosmos -- An ideal-type of ancient wisdom : the case of stoicism -- The here and now enchanted by the beyond -- Death finally conquered by immortality : philosophy replaced by religion -- The renascence of lay philosophy and the humanization of the good life -- A humanism of the man-God : the good life as a life in harmony with the human -- Condition -- Materialism, religion, and humanism -- A new approach to the question of happiness |
| Summary |
"In What Is the Good Life? Luc Ferry argues that the question of the meaning of life, on which much philosophical debate throughout the centuries rested, has not vanished, but rather is posed differently today. Ferry points out the pressures in our secularized world that tend to reduce the idea of a successful life or "good life" to one of wealth, career satisfaction, and prestige. Without deserting the secular presuppositions of our world, he shows that we can give ourselves this richer sense of life's possibilities. The "good life" consists of harmonizing life's different forces in a way that enables one to achieve a sense of personal satisfaction in the realization of one's creative abilities."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-310) and index |
| Subject |
Conduct of life.
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Success.
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| LC no. |
2004020135 |
| ISBN |
0226244539 cloth alkaline paper |
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