Plain life : on thinking, feeling and deciding / Antonia Pont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pont, Antonia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Thought and thinking.

Self-realization.

Peace of mind.

Simplicity.

ethics (philosophical concept).

thinking.

Genre:

Self-help publications.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : NewSouth, 2025.

Summary:

"These days, it's easy to get the impression that people are really very anxious. Who? you ask. Well, people you hear about. People who tell you they are. Friends. Lovers. Acquaintances. Colleagues. The Youth. The term is around and people are applying it to themselves, or having it applied to them, willy-nilly. What would it mean to be able to live a plain life? Would a plain life just be an unambitious one - a drab or routine life, without colour, variation, unknowing or luck? Or would a plain life be one in which we'd fret slightly less, suspect ourselves less, and thus listen to ourselves and others in new ways? We may not need to do more and be more - in the quiet spaces already within us, lurking in the interstices of our days and conversations, there are ways and choreographies to nurture a plainer, saner, odder, less reactive and therefore less terrifying life. In Plain Life, Antonia Pont questions our thinking about capacities, virtue, envy, wanting, love and kindness - suggesting that it might be fine, more than enough, indeed so much, to live a plain life"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

In praise of a plain life

Deciding capacities

On love and making ones

Being bothered

Virtue: falling out of love with Awful

Envy: a case study

Four nuances of 'Can'

Wanting, affirmation and the plain 'no' of critique

Rigorous kindness

The middle: framing vastness

Risking plainness

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781761170164

1761170163

OCLC:

1530056403