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The cost of comfort John Lachs [aut].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lachs, John., Author.
- Series:
- American philosophy.
- American philosophy 2019: 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press 2019
- Summary:
- Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing unhappiness. In The Cost of Comfort, Lachs contemplates what humans need in order to live fulfilled lives in today's world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Comfort
- 2. Discomfort
- 3. A Broken and an Integrated World
- 4. Complete and Dismembered Actions
- 5. Mediation
- 6. Philosophical Excursion: Hegel and Peirce on Mediation
- 7. Six Consequences of Mediation
- 8. (A) Passivity
- 9. (B) Impotence
- 10. (C) Ignorance
- 11. (D) Manipulation
- 12. (E) Psychic Distance
- 13. (F) Irresponsibility
- 14. Major Mediators: Tools
- 15. Major Mediators: Language
- 16. Major Mediators: Ideology
- 17. Major Mediators: Institutions
- 18. Major Mediators: Government
- 19. Mediated Immediacies
- 20. Eliminate Mediation?
- 21. Ineffective Ways of Dealing with Mediation
- 22. Preexisting Values
- 23. Advertising
- 24. Openness
- 25. Transparency
- 26. Education
- 27. The Power of Immediacy
- 28. Immediacy and Politics
- 29. New Rules of Responsibility
- Conclusion
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253043184
- 0253043182
- OCLC:
- 1152052652
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