Losing Ourselves

Name: Losing Ourselves
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691220284
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Learning to Live without a Self

Autor: Jay L. Garfield

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Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading ex...

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Jay L. Garfield

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engleză

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2022

Pagini

224

EAN

9780691220284

ISBN

069122028X

Enbook ID

37287170

Editura

Princeton University Press

Greutate

446

Dimensiuni

224 x 147 x 26

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Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural to think you have a self—and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even dangerous. Most importantly, he explains why shedding the illusion that you have a self can make you a better person. Examining a wide range of arguments for and against the existence of the self, Losing Ourselves makes the case that there are not only good philosophical and scientific reasons to deny the reality of the self, but that we can lead healthier social and moral lives if we understand that we are selfless persons. The book describes why the Buddhist idea of no-self is so powerful and why it has immense practical benefits, helping us to abandon egoism, act more morally and ethically, be more spontaneous, perform more expertly, and navigate ordinary life more skillfully. Getting over the self-illusion also means escaping the isolation of self-identity and becoming a person who participates with others in the shared enterprise of life. The result is a transformative book about why we have nothing to lose—and everything to gain—by losing our selves.

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