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John Kekes - The Art of Life - 9780801489792 - 9780801489792
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The Art of Life

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Description for The Art of Life paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.

"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in coming to appreciate what makes some lives exemplary.... That imitation here is impossible does not mean one cannot learn from examples. The question is, How can that be done reasonably; how can decisions about how one should live escape being arbitrary, if they are left to individual creativity and imagination and are not governed by rules that apply ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489792
SKU
9780801489792
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About John Kekes
John Kekes is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of ten books on moral and political philosophy, among which are Pluralism in Philosophy: Changing the Subject and Moral Wisdom and Good Lives, both from Cornell, and The Art of Life.

Reviews for The Art of Life
John Kekes has been a steady and important contributor to recent discussions about life.... The Art of Life demonstrates unequivocally the value of rigorous philosophical reflection on something that we all want, spend most of our time and energy trying to achieve, fret about endlessly, but understand only dimly, namely, a good life. The Art of Life is both a ... Read more

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