Doing Valuable Time

Doing Valuable Time considers the interest--and disinterest--we take in our own lives. It explores the nature of meaningful living, the attraction to the future that is lost in depression, the motivating force of hope, the role of commitments, the inevitability of boredom, and the possibilities for contentment with imperfection.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgements


• Preface


• Chapter 1: Introduction: Having a Future, Leading a Life, and Spending Time


• Chapter 2: Geographies of Meaningful Living


• Chapter 3: Taking an Interest in One's Future


• Chapter 4: Motivating Hope


• Chapter 5: What Good is Commitment?


• Chapter 6: Living with Boredom


• Chapter 7: On Being Content with Imperfection


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. Her two previous books, Moral Aims: Getting It Right and Practicing Morality with Others (2016) and Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement (2000) were also published by Oxford University Press. Calhoun works in the areas of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, and feminist philosophy.

Zusammenfassung

Doing Valuable Time considers the interest--and disinterest--we take in our own lives. It explores the nature of meaningful living, the attraction to the future that is lost in depression, the motivating force of hope, the role of commitments, the inevitability of boredom, and the possibilities for contentment with imperfection.

Zusatztext

Doing Valuable Time is a philosophical exercise, yet one with immensely practicable thoughts and concerns. ... I found it an encouraging and informing book.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Calhoun , Cheshire Calhoun, Cheshire (Professor of Philosophy Calhoun, Calhoun Cheshire
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.11.2022
• EAN: 9780197678992
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767899-2
• Seiten: 200
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Cognition and cognitive psychology