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The Myth of Luck - Philosophy, Fate, and Fortune (Hardcover)
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Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel
theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of
mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge
on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been
fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of
our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome,
considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck,
before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring
how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge,
and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times
and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we
solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear,
like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether
mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to
defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion.
By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons
that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why
in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own
doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the
world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and
history of luck along the way.
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