Design for Living
Autor: | Friedmann, Robert |
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EAN: | 9781532632075 |
Sachgruppe: | Philosophie Sachbücher/Philosophie, Religion/Philosophie |
Sprache: | Englisch metaCatalog.groups.language.options.icelandic |
Seitenzahl: | 200 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Herausgeber: | Kennel, Maxwell |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 29.11.2017 |
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Written in 1954 but unpublished in his lifetime, Robert Friedmann's Design for Living asks that pertinent existential question: how should we live? Drawing on literary, philosophical, and theological sources, Friedmann's answer begins with a critique of utilitarian ethics and popular apathy, and proceeds through an existential preparation that ascends in confessional style to the question of the meaning of human life, culminating in a fourfold set of principles: regard, concern, service, and love. Along the way, Friedmann's critical eye remains clearly fixed on his object of study--lived experience, and not abstract principles detached from day-to-day life--and he intentionally guides his reader step by step up the mountain of spiritual and ethical inquiry in a deliberate and serious attempt to educate the heart, mind, and soul. At once accessible and scholarly, while troubling our contemporary divide between religion and the secular, Design for Living presents a rare vision of human meaning and purpose that will appeal to scholarly and public readers alike.