The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy
Grayling gives us pause to examine these questions by reflecting on topics that concern us all - ethics, religion, evil, luxury, marriage, sex, liberty, justice and war. This item is not currently in-stock. It can be ordered online and is expected to ship in days.
Our stock data is updated overnight, and availability may change throughout the day for in-demand items. Please call the relevant shop for the most current stock information. Prices are subject to change without notice. Sign in or become a Readings Member to add this title to a wishlist. The Reason of Things: No matter what your race, religion or gender, when you first step outside your door in the morning and feel the fresh air in your lungs and the morning sun on your face, you close your eyes and smile. In that moment you are feeling life as it should be. No defining, no understanding, no thinking.
Just that feeling of pure bliss. For that is what life is. Everyone has a story. Life cannot be planned: Failure can bring crushing disappointment, or you can try and make a new plan.
The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy
But who wants to waste that much time regretting? Life has happy surprises, small moments to cherish. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. The first line expresses two of the three marks of existence as per Buddhist thinking, Anicca , impermanence, and Anatta , non-self: The stage metaphor in the second line represents boundaries or limits. Scientific research into the nature of life often focuses on the material, energetic, and temporal limitations within which life can exist.
The temporal limit of life is known as death. Now, this refers to the language-based, or code-based, nature of life. In five concise and poetic lines, Shakespeare defined life as an impermanent, non-self-directed, unsatisfactory, limited, ever-changing, and ultimately insignificant code. Life is the realisation of its own contingency. Life is thus a constant process of becoming, through creating values and meaning. Life is therefore perpetual transcendence, always moving into the future, creating the present. Life is also acceptance: Life is neither fixed nor absolute, it is ambiguous; life is the possibilities entailed by existence.
Life is the consciousness of humanity; it is perception of the world and the universe. So life is sadness; life is death. Life is suffering and destruction. But life is also happiness; life is living. Life is joy and creativity. Life is finding a cause to survive, a reason not to die — not yet. It is youth and old age, with everything in between.
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Overall, life is beautiful — ugliness is fleeting. Corpses and skeletons are lugubrious; living flesh is resplendent, all bodies are statuesque. Human life is love and hate, but it can only be life when we are with others. Life as fear and hatred is not real life at all. For some, life is God. We would all then be His children. We are nevertheless the spawn of the Earth. If the ancients could do philosophy in the marketplace, maybe I can too. Here are a sample of replies. I was surprised to find that I had no immediate definition of life myself hence the idea to ask and that there is no consensus only one reply was repeated , but then, that also is life.
I sometimes catch myself considering life when I arrive at the turning point on my evening walk.
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This makes me feel two things about my life: Now we know what life is, the next question is, How Should I Live? Please give and justify your ethical advice in less than words.
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I found this book to be incredibly boring. I stopped about one-third through. I think this author's thoughts and opinions are under-developed.
He pulls information partly from theoretical thought, partly from opinion and declares it as factual analysis. He spends an awful lot of time quoting and referencing works from "elitist culture" as he calls it while delving very little into actual philosophy about anything. It started to appear like it was written by a grumpy, cynical British man that l I found this book to be incredibly boring.
It started to appear like it was written by a grumpy, cynical British man that likes appearance more than substance, often stereotyping, men, women, Muslims, homosexuals, etc. A little bit hypocritical, really. Many of the articles' titles seem only tangentially related to what the author writes about.
For instance "credulity" is just a rant about tarot cards, speaking more about their origin and history than the topic at hand. The focus is not really "credulity", but "tarot is dumb". The article on "Identity" focuses solely on European society. Identity is more than just a place you're from.