Samuel Scheffler

One Life to Lead (eBook, ePUB)

The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead -- yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life. The answer may seem obvious, but leading one's life is actually a complex, multifaceted undertaking, which requires us to negotiate deeply puzzling aspects of our experience and overcome profound challenges to our sense of ourselves and our place in the world. In One Life to Lead, Samuel Scheffler develops an "attachment-sensitive" conception of what it means to lead a recognizably human life. In so doing, he reveals hidden complexities that are latent in our understanding of ourselves and our lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197754733
• Artikelnr.: 73158888

Autorenporträt

Samuel Scheffler is University Professor and Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He is the author of seven books, including Why Worry about Future Generations? (OUP, 2018), and Death and the Afterlife (OUP, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: The Lure of Detachment
Chapter Two: Temporal Neutrality and Temporal Bias
Chapter Three: As Time Goes By
Chapter Four: The Time of Our Lives
Chapter Five: Aging and the Threat of Normative Poverty
Chapter Six: The Historicist Sensibility
Chapter Seven: Attachment, Partiality, and Deference
Chapter Eight: Leading Lives
Epilogue: Contingency, Control, and Particularity