Irving Singer

Meaning in Life, Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

The Pursuit of Love

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An acclaimed philosopher suggests that the art of living well employs the same principles as those that exist in all artistic creativity.

This final book in Irving Singer's Meaning in Life trilogy studies the interaction between nature and the values that define human spirituality. It examines the ways in which we overcome the suffering in life by resolving our sense of being divided between them. Singer suggests that the accord between nature and spirit arises from an art of life that affords meaning, happiness, and love by employing the same principles as those that exist in all artistic achievements. It is through the meaningfulness created by imagination and idealization, Singer says, that we make life worth living.

This human art form, Singer writes, enables us to unite our selfish interests with our compassionate and loving inclinations. We thereby effect a vital harmonization within which the naturalistic values of ethics, aesthetics, and...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262266475
• Artikelnr.: 60506903

Autorenporträt

Irving Singer was Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He was the author of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up, Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas, all published by the MIT Press, and many other books.