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Lou MarinoffPublication Details
BookSterling Pub2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BJ1481 .M358 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Lou Marinoff, professor of philosophy and author of Plato, not Prozac, reveals the ABCs of finding that spiritually rich path: Aristotle, Buddha, and Confucius. The second segment focuses on some notorious extremes?including political polarization, and simmering religious, tribal, gender, cultural, and economic divides?and how the ABCs can reconcile them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Globalization and its discontents : convergence and conflict of four civilizations
- Aristotle’s golden mean : attaining excellence and happiness amidst unreason
- Buddha’s middle way : creating value and compassion amidst suffering
- Confucius’s balanced order : restoring harmony and virtue amidst discord
- ABC geometry : golden mean, middle way, balanced order are deeply related
- Political extremes : polarized America and the absence of a common good
- Sacred and profane extremes : blind faith versus deaf doubt
- Tribal extremes : natural dispersion and cultural commingling in the global village
- Pandora’s extremes : the politicization of sex difference
- Cognitive extremes : oral, written, visual, and digital traditions
- Educational extremes : global lag and the American gulag
- Economic extremes : overabundance and dire dearth
- Totemic extremes : mcfoods, mcdrugs, and brave new mcworlds
- Middle Eastern extremes : stinging scorpions and free figs
- Terrorist extremes : bombed if we do, and bombed if we don’t
- Importing the ABCs into your life : exporting them into your environment
ISBN
- 9781402743443
- 1402743440
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