Leading a worthy life :: finding meaning in modern times /
Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no lon...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Encounter Books,
2017.
|
| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | DE-862 DE-863 DE-862 DE-863 |
| Summary: | Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea - regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial - and still available - aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times. -- from dust jacket |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ii, 404 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594039423 1594039429 9781641770996 1641770996 |
Staff View
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000 i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | ZDB-4-EBA-on1003269047 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20250103110447.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr ||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 170907t20172017nyua ob 001 0 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2017043096 | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |e rda |e pn |c DLC |d OCLCF |d IDEBK |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d TEFOD |d TOH |d UAB |d YDX |d N$T |d WAU |d PLS |d RECBK |d UKAHL |d UBY |d OCLCQ |d YDX |d OCLCO |d K6U |d OCLCQ |d INARC |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCL |d CLOUD |d OCLCO | ||
| 019 | |a 1022778877 |a 1151408168 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781594039423 |q electronic book | ||
| 020 | |a 1594039429 |q electronic book | ||
| 020 | |a 9781641770996 |q electronic book | ||
| 020 | |a 1641770996 |q electronic book | ||
| 020 | |z 9781594039416 |q hardcover |q alkaline paper | ||
| 020 | |z 1594039410 |q hardcover |q alkaline paper | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1003269047 |z (OCoLC)1022778877 |z (OCoLC)1151408168 | ||
| 037 | |a 7428FD00-DBE8-44CB-BE5B-880DCDA52EEF |b OverDrive, Inc. |n http://www.overdrive.com | ||
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 050 | 1 | 4 | |a B105.M4 |b K37 2017 |
| 072 | 7 | |a PHI |x 005000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a PHI |x 034000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 082 | 7 | |a 170/.44 |2 23 | |
| 049 | |a MAIN | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Kass, Leon, |e author. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqVX3893pgKyrbcK8C4v3 |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110676 | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Leading a worthy life : |b finding meaning in modern times / |c Leon R. Kass. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Encounter Books, |c 2017. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2017 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (ii, 404 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation. | |
| 520 | |a Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea - regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial - and still available - aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times. -- from dust jacket | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2022). | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Meaning (Philosophy) |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Life. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Signification (Philosophie) | |
| 650 | 7 | |a PHILOSOPHY |x Ethics & Moral Philosophy. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a PHILOSOPHY |x Social. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Life |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Meaning (Philosophy) |2 fast | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Electronic books. | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a Leading a worthy life (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH97xMRTD7xVqcTG3RGwT3 |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Kass, Leon. |t Leading a worthy life. |d New York : Encounter Books, [2017] |z 9781594039416 |w (DLC) 2017031502 |
| 966 | 4 | 0 | |l DE-862 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FWS_PDA_EBA |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1700582 |3 Volltext |
| 966 | 4 | 0 | |l DE-863 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FWS_PDA_EBA |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1700582 |3 Volltext |
| 966 | 4 | 0 | |l DE-862 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FWS_PDA_EBA |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2201718 |3 Volltext |
| 966 | 4 | 0 | |l DE-863 |p ZDB-4-EBA |q FWS_PDA_EBA |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2201718 |3 Volltext |
| 938 | |a cloudLibrary |b CLDL |n 9781594039423 | ||
| 938 | |a Internet Archive |b INAR |n leadingworthylif0000kass | ||
| 938 | |a Askews and Holts Library Services |b ASKH |n AH33231787 | ||
| 938 | |a EBSCOhost |b EBSC |n 1700582 | ||
| 938 | |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection |b IDEB |n cis38889563 | ||
| 938 | |a Recorded Books, LLC |b RECE |n rbeEB00769243 | ||
| 938 | |a Recorded Books, LLC |b RECE |n rbeEB00769422 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 15149533 | ||
| 994 | |a 92 |b GEBAY | ||
| 912 | |a ZDB-4-EBA | ||
| 049 | |a DE-862 | ||
| 049 | |a DE-863 | ||
Record in the Search Index
| DE-BY-FWS_katkey | ZDB-4-EBA-on1003269047 |
|---|---|
| _version_ | 1829095117703610368 |
| adam_text | |
| any_adam_object | |
| author | Kass, Leon |
| author_GND | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110676 |
| author_facet | Kass, Leon |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Kass, Leon |
| author_variant | l k lk |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | localFWS |
| callnumber-first | B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion |
| callnumber-label | B105 |
| callnumber-raw | B105.M4 K37 2017 |
| callnumber-search | B105.M4 K37 2017 |
| callnumber-sort | B 3105 M4 K37 42017 |
| callnumber-subject | B - Philosophy |
| collection | ZDB-4-EBA |
| contents | Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation. |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)1003269047 |
| dewey-full | 170/.44 |
| dewey-hundreds | 100 - Philosophy & psychology |
| dewey-ones | 170 - Ethics (Moral philosophy) |
| dewey-raw | 170/.44 |
| dewey-search | 170/.44 |
| dewey-sort | 3170 244 |
| dewey-tens | 170 - Ethics (Moral philosophy) |
| discipline | Philosophie |
| edition | First American edition. |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>06097cam a2200709 i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">ZDB-4-EBA-on1003269047</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">OCoLC</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20250103110447.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m o d </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr |||||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">170907t20172017nyua ob 001 0 eng </controlfield><datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a"> 2017043096</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DLC</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield><subfield code="e">pn</subfield><subfield code="c">DLC</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCF</subfield><subfield code="d">IDEBK</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">TEFOD</subfield><subfield code="d">TOH</subfield><subfield code="d">UAB</subfield><subfield code="d">YDX</subfield><subfield code="d">N$T</subfield><subfield code="d">WAU</subfield><subfield code="d">PLS</subfield><subfield code="d">RECBK</subfield><subfield code="d">UKAHL</subfield><subfield code="d">UBY</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">YDX</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">K6U</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">INARC</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCQ</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCL</subfield><subfield code="d">CLOUD</subfield><subfield code="d">OCLCO</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1022778877</subfield><subfield code="a">1151408168</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781594039423</subfield><subfield code="q">electronic book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1594039429</subfield><subfield code="q">electronic book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781641770996</subfield><subfield code="q">electronic book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1641770996</subfield><subfield code="q">electronic book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9781594039416</subfield><subfield code="q">hardcover</subfield><subfield code="q">alkaline paper</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">1594039410</subfield><subfield code="q">hardcover</subfield><subfield code="q">alkaline paper</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1003269047</subfield><subfield code="z">(OCoLC)1022778877</subfield><subfield code="z">(OCoLC)1151408168</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="037" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">7428FD00-DBE8-44CB-BE5B-880DCDA52EEF</subfield><subfield code="b">OverDrive, Inc.</subfield><subfield code="n">http://www.overdrive.com</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="042" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">pcc</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">B105.M4</subfield><subfield code="b">K37 2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">PHI</subfield><subfield code="x">005000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">PHI</subfield><subfield code="x">034000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">170/.44</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">MAIN</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Kass, Leon,</subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="1">https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqVX3893pgKyrbcK8C4v3</subfield><subfield code="0">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110676</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Leading a worthy life :</subfield><subfield code="b">finding meaning in modern times /</subfield><subfield code="c">Leon R. Kass.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">First American edition.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York :</subfield><subfield code="b">Encounter Books,</subfield><subfield code="c">2017.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2017</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (ii, 404 pages) :</subfield><subfield code="b">illustrations</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="504" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references and index.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea - regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial - and still available - aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times. -- from dust jacket</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2022).</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Meaning (Philosophy)</subfield><subfield code="0">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Life.</subfield><subfield code="0">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="6"><subfield code="a">Signification (Philosophie)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">PHILOSOPHY</subfield><subfield code="x">Ethics & Moral Philosophy.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">PHILOSOPHY</subfield><subfield code="x">Social.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Life</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Meaning (Philosophy)</subfield><subfield code="2">fast</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="655" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Electronic books.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="758" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="i">has work:</subfield><subfield code="a">Leading a worthy life (Text)</subfield><subfield code="1">https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH97xMRTD7xVqcTG3RGwT3</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Print version:</subfield><subfield code="a">Kass, Leon.</subfield><subfield code="t">Leading a worthy life.</subfield><subfield code="d">New York : Encounter Books, [2017]</subfield><subfield code="z">9781594039416</subfield><subfield code="w">(DLC) 2017031502</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="l">DE-862</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FWS_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="u">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1700582</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="l">DE-863</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FWS_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="u">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1700582</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="l">DE-862</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FWS_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="u">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2201718</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="l">DE-863</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield><subfield code="q">FWS_PDA_EBA</subfield><subfield code="u">https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2201718</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">cloudLibrary</subfield><subfield code="b">CLDL</subfield><subfield code="n">9781594039423</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Internet Archive</subfield><subfield code="b">INAR</subfield><subfield code="n">leadingworthylif0000kass</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Askews and Holts Library Services</subfield><subfield code="b">ASKH</subfield><subfield code="n">AH33231787</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBSCOhost</subfield><subfield code="b">EBSC</subfield><subfield code="n">1700582</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection</subfield><subfield code="b">IDEB</subfield><subfield code="n">cis38889563</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Recorded Books, LLC</subfield><subfield code="b">RECE</subfield><subfield code="n">rbeEB00769243</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Recorded Books, LLC</subfield><subfield code="b">RECE</subfield><subfield code="n">rbeEB00769422</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="938" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">YBP Library Services</subfield><subfield code="b">YANK</subfield><subfield code="n">15149533</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="994" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">92</subfield><subfield code="b">GEBAY</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-4-EBA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-862</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-863</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| genre | Electronic books. |
| genre_facet | Electronic books. |
| id | ZDB-4-EBA-on1003269047 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2025-04-11T08:43:55Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9781594039423 1594039429 9781641770996 1641770996 |
| language | English |
| lccn | 2017043096 |
| oclc_num | 1003269047 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | MAIN DE-862 DE-BY-FWS DE-863 DE-BY-FWS |
| owner_facet | MAIN DE-862 DE-BY-FWS DE-863 DE-BY-FWS |
| physical | 1 online resource (ii, 404 pages) : illustrations |
| psigel | ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA ZDB-4-EBA |
| publishDate | 2017 |
| publishDateSearch | 2017 |
| publishDateSort | 2017 |
| publisher | Encounter Books, |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Kass, Leon, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqVX3893pgKyrbcK8C4v3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79110676 Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / Leon R. Kass. First American edition. New York : Encounter Books, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (ii, 404 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation. Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea - regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial - and still available - aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times. -- from dust jacket Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2022). Meaning (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692 Life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 Signification (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Life fast Meaning (Philosophy) fast Electronic books. has work: Leading a worthy life (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH97xMRTD7xVqcTG3RGwT3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Kass, Leon. Leading a worthy life. New York : Encounter Books, [2017] 9781594039416 (DLC) 2017031502 |
| spellingShingle | Kass, Leon Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation. Meaning (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692 Life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 Signification (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Life fast Meaning (Philosophy) fast |
| subject_GND | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 |
| title | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / |
| title_auth | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / |
| title_exact_search | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / |
| title_full | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / Leon R. Kass. |
| title_fullStr | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / Leon R. Kass. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leading a worthy life : finding meaning in modern times / Leon R. Kass. |
| title_short | Leading a worthy life : |
| title_sort | leading a worthy life finding meaning in modern times |
| title_sub | finding meaning in modern times / |
| topic | Meaning (Philosophy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692 Life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076807 Signification (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Social. bisacsh Life fast Meaning (Philosophy) fast |
| topic_facet | Meaning (Philosophy) Life. Signification (Philosophie) PHILOSOPHY Ethics & Moral Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY Social. Life Electronic books. |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT kassleon leadingaworthylifefindingmeaninginmoderntimes |