Matthew J Dennis

Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments as susceptible to growth, change, and improvement, but we should view these entities as amenable to self-cultivation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367529635
• ISBN-10: 0367529637
• Artikelnr.: 60000335

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Dennis specialises in how technology can increase human flourishing, as well as in the ethics of AI and other emerging technologies. He currently holds a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Research Fellowship in the Department of Values, Technology, and Innovation at TU Delft.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Towards a Theory of Passionate Self-Cultivation
1. The Value of Our Passionate Attachments
2. The Value of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
Part II: Enlisting the Resources of Hellenistic Philosophy
3. Revaluing Hellenism
4. Hellenistic Exercises of Self-Cultivation
Part III: Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
5. A Theory of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
6. Practices of Passionate Self-Cultivation for Contemporary Life
Conclusion: Self-Cultivation in Practical Philosophy