Life: A User’s Manual: Philosophy for (Almost) Any Eventuality

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How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre. Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like: Is there a right way to grieve? What is free will? How can we learn from past mistakes? Do we make our own luck? Cover Title About the Author Also by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro Introduction A Acceptance Achievement Addiction Afterlife Ageing Aloneness Alternative Medicine Altruism Ambition Ambivalence Anger Anxiety Appreciation Argument Asceticism Assisted Dying Authenticity Authority B Bad Faith Balance Reading Beautification Bereavement Betrayal Blame The Body Boredom Busyness C Calm Career Carpe Diem Change Character Charity Children Choice Commitment Community Companion Animals Compassion Competition Consent Consumerism Contentment Control Cosmic Insignificance Courage Craft D Dating Death Decision-Making Depression Desires Dilemmas Disappointment Divorce Doubt Duty E Education Embarrassment Emotions Empathy The Environment Envy Euthanasia Evidence Evil F Failure Faith Fame Family Fate Fear Fear of Missing Out Feelings Food and Drink Forgiveness Freedom Free Will Friendship Frugality Frustration G God Gossip Gratitude Guilt and Shame H Habits Happiness Health and Illness Home Hope Human Nature Humility I Identity Idleness Illness Impostor Syndrome Indecision Infidelity Inner Life Insecurity Integrity Intuition Irrationality J Jealousy Joy Justice K Kindness Knowledge L Leisure Loneliness Loss Love Love of Life Loyalty Luck Lying M Meaning Melancholy Memory Mental Health Midlife Crisis Mindfulness Mistakes Moderation Money Monogamy Moods Mortality Motivation N Narcissism Nature Needs Neighbours Noise O Objectification Office Politics Optimism Other People P Pain Parenthood Patriotism Perfectionism Perseverance Pessimism Pets Play Pleasure Politics Polyamory Pornography Potential Pride Problems Protest Purpose R Rationality Regret Relationships Relaxation Religion Reputation Resilience Responsibility Retirement Right and Wrong Risk Routine S Sadness Security Self-Absorption Self-Actualisation Self-Care Self-Confidence Self-Control Self-Deception Self-Esteem Self-Knowledge Self-Love Selfishness Sex Shame Silence Simplicity Sleep Slowing Down Social media Solitude Stress Success Suffering Suicide Supernatural Superstition T Temptation Tolerance Travel Trust Truth U Uncertainty Unconscious Unemployment V Values Vanity Vegetarianism Virtual Life Virtue Vulnerability W War Weakness of Will Wealth Willpower Wisdom Work Work-Life Balance Worrying Zest Philosophy: Where to Start Index Copyright