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Life Is Short - An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful (Hardcover)
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Life Is Short - An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R587
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Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it
meaningful Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to
create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending
death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary,
Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing
tennis without a net. Only constraints-and death is the ultimate
constraint-make our actions meaningful. In Life Is Short, Rickles
explains why the finiteness and shortness of life is the essence of
its meaning-and how this insight is the key to making the most of
the time we do have. Life Is Short explores how death limits our
options and forces us to make choices that forge a life and give
the world meaning. But people often live in a state of indecision,
in a misguided attempt to keep their options open. This provisional
way of living-always looking elsewhere, to the future, to other
people, to other ways of being, and never committing to what one
has or, alternatively, putting in the time and energy to achieve
what one wants-is a big mistake, and Life Is Short tells readers
how to avoid this trap. By reminding us how extraordinary it is
that we have any time to live at all, Life Is Short challenges us
to rethink what gives life meaning and how to make the most of it.
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