Bibliograph

Worldly wisdom, Great Books and the meanings of life, James Sloan Allen

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Worldly wisdom, Great Books and the meanings of life, James Sloan Allen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Worldly wisdom

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

77821681

Responsibility statement

James Sloan Allen

Sub title

Great Books and the meanings of life

Table Of Contents

The tragic sense of life and the dawn of humanism -- Control yourself -- What do you know? How do you know it? Why should you care? -- Living the good life -- The moral landscape of Hell -- Growing up naturally -- Enough? Never! -- From the maggot man to the superman -- Condemned to be free -- Find the right way, do the right thing -- How to succeed in the business of life -- So it seems -- The price of mis-education -- Democracy as a way of life -- Through a class darkly -- We shall overcome -- The psychology of everyday life -- It's party time : the ethics of civility -- The morality and immorality of art -- All stories are true -- How beautiful, how sad -- The uses of idealism -- The gifts of imagination -- Fantasies of seduction and the seductions of fantasy -- Art for life's sake -- Of love and marriage, passion and aging

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