On Desire: Why We Want What We WantOxford University Press, 1 нояб. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 336 A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a dramatic impact, sometimes changing the course of our lives. In On Desire, William B. Irvine takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our impulses, wants, and needs, showing us where these feelings come from and how we can try to rein them in. Spicing his account with engaging observations by writers like Seneca, Tolstoy, and Freud, Irvine considers the teachings of Buddhists, Hindus, the Amish, Shakers, and Catholic saints, as well as those of ancient Greek and Roman and modern European philosophers. Irvine also looks at what modern science can tell us about desire--such as what happens in the brain when we desire something and how animals evolved particular desires--and he advances a new theory about how desire itself evolved. Irvine also suggests that at the same time that we gained the ability to desire, we were "programmed" to find some things more desirable than others. Irvine concludes that the best way to attain lasting happiness is not to change the world around us or our place in it, but to change ourselves. If we can convince ourselves to want what we already have, we can dramatically enhance our happiness. Brimming with wisdom and practical advice, On Desire offers a thoughtful approach to controlling unwanted passions and attaining a more meaningful life. |
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... Merton. Merton was born in 1915. In his college years, he was a typical student, awash in pleasures of the flesh. He drank hard and ran around with a fast crowd. He became a father out of wedlock.12 He was, in his own words, “an ...
... Merton. Merton was born in 1915. In his college years, he was a typical student, awash in pleasures of the flesh. He drank hard and ran around with a fast crowd. He became a father out of wedlock.12 He was, in his own words, “an ...
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... Merton, we are lucky: his autobiographical Seven Storey Mountainlays out in great detail the psychology of a man in transition. Let us first consider Merton's desire to convert to Catholicism. It is a classic example of a spontaneous ...
... Merton, we are lucky: his autobiographical Seven Storey Mountainlays out in great detail the psychology of a man in transition. Let us first consider Merton's desire to convert to Catholicism. It is a classic example of a spontaneous ...
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... Merton took this as a sign. (Cynics might point out that his decision to join a monastery coincided with his receiving a letter from the draft board; World War II had just begun.) Merton was not surprised by these sudden onsets of ...
... Merton took this as a sign. (Cynics might point out that his decision to join a monastery coincided with his receiving a letter from the draft board; World War II had just begun.) Merton was not surprised by these sudden onsets of ...
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... Merton is not alone in thinking that reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire. It is, by the way, instructive to contrast Merton with Bertrand Russell. When people hear about how Merton's life was transformed by ...
... Merton is not alone in thinking that reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire. It is, by the way, instructive to contrast Merton with Bertrand Russell. When people hear about how Merton's life was transformed by ...
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... Merton's sudden desire to become a Trappist monk was due either to evolutionary programming (the claim that our ancestors who became Trappist monks were more likely to reproduce than those who didn't is wildly implausible) or to ...
... Merton's sudden desire to become a Trappist monk was due either to evolutionary programming (the claim that our ancestors who became Trappist monks were more likely to reproduce than those who didn't is wildly implausible) or to ...
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