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The significance impulse : on the unimportance of our cosmic unimportance / Joshua Glasgow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glasgow, Joshua, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Act (Philosophy).
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Impulse.
- Intentionality (Philosophy).
- Success.
- Self-acceptance.
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Why should we strive to be important? Does it make our lives go better if we are especially significant? 'The Significance Impulse' argues that the common impulse to seek exceptionally high levels of significance is misguided.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Splinter and the Dove
- 2 Value Rare and High
- 3 The Sage's Argument
- 4 Living Your Best Life
- 5 Meaning
- 6 The Significance of Insignificance
- References
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 7, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-775478-3
- 0-19-775476-7
- 0-19-775477-5
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