How does one make good decisions? What shape of life emerges from choosing well? In this careful book, Brad Lancaster gathers ideas about human meaning to frame -kithdom, - a political theory that encourages meaningful life together in interwoven circles of friends. Cull offers insight about peace, humility, friendship, family, and consensus. Lancaster helps one get clear about depopulation, shared meaning, and pot holes in human thinking. Cull suggests simple rules for living that satisfy our hunger for deliberated togetherness. Cull asks all to dwell on unborn generations and the legacy we...
How does one make good decisions? What shape of life emerges from choosing well? In this careful book, Brad Lancaster gathers ideas about human meanin...
Cull: Epitomes offers its reader, in a single volume, the essence of seventy-seven core philosophical and religious works. Each presents a thinker without knowledge of which one can scarcely begin to mull ethical and political questions. These vignettes span religious thought from pious wondering in the Indus valley to Buber's slippery mysticism. They measure politics from the olive groves of Athens to Harvard's intellectual ferment. These epitomes examine morality from the sacral smokes of the Sinai desert to E. O. Wilson's eusocial ants. These little works capture the texture, if not the...
Cull: Epitomes offers its reader, in a single volume, the essence of seventy-seven core philosophical and religious works. Each presents a thinker wit...