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Ideas to save your life : philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure / Michael McGirr.

Ideas to save your life : philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure / Michael McGirr.
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100 MCGI
 Adult Non Fiction   Padstow . . On Loan . 28 May 2024
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ISBN 9781922330871 (hardback)
Name McGirr, Michael, 1961- author.
Title Ideas to save your life : philosophy for wisdom, solace and pleasure / Michael McGirr.
Published Melbourne, VIC : Text Publishing, 2021.
©2021
Description 304 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary This time, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, looking at the works of twenty eminent thinkers across history. The book goes back to Pythagoras and comes forward to the contemporary Australian Frank Jackson; back to Mungo Woman and forward to Martha Nussbaum, by way of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch. It is animated by two related questions: from where do we draw a sense of life's purpose, and how can philosophy make life better? It ranges widely across subjects: from solitude to community, language to order, experience to ecstasy, the idea of good to that of a good idea. McGirr's approach is warm and inviting. Drawing on many years' experience teaching philosophy to teenagers, he shares stories from his life and discusses how philosophers have shed light on them. Ideas to Save Your Life is often funny, but it is serious about philosophy. It makes the impenetrable accessible, the indescribable palpable, and invites you to change the way you see the world.
Subjects McGirr, Michael, -- 1961- Books and reading
Philosophy
Philosophy -- History
Philosophers
Literature
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