Julian Baggini

Antonia Macaro

Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life's questions. Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage - aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro - have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will, spirituality and independence, this book - their first together - expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of existential unease, metaphysical trauma and - for instance - how much we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we'd all like to hear: what is the good life, and how we can live it?

A Guide to Living

The Shrink and the Sage

‘This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy.’ - Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism and Secular Buddhism Modern readers tend to think of Buddhism as spending time alone meditating, searching for serenity. Stoicism calls to mind repressing our emotions in order to help us soldier on through adversity. But how accurate are our popular understandings of these traditions? And what can we learn from them without either buying in wholeheartedly to their radical ideals or else transmuting them into simple self-improvement regimes that bear little resemblance to their original aims? How can we achieve more than happiness? In More than Happiness, Antonia Macaro delves into both philosophies, focusing on the elements that fit with our sceptical age, and those which have the potential to make the biggest impact on how we live. From accepting that some things are beyond our control, to monitoring our emotions for unhealthy reactions, to shedding attachment to material things, there is much, she argues, that we can take and much that we’d do better to leave behind. In this synthesis of ancient wisdom, Macaro reframes the ‘good life’, and gets us to see the world as it really is and to question the value of the things we desire. The goal is more than happiness: living ethically and placing value on the right things in life.

Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age

More Than Happiness

Bir kılavuz bir şeylerin nasıl çalıştığını ve sorunların nasıl çözülebileceğini gösterir. Hayatın da bir kullanım kılavuzuyla daha kolay olabileceğini düşündünüz mü hiç? İnsanlar için durum biraz farklı. Amaçlarımızı kendimiz belirlemek, araçlarımızı kendimiz bulmak zorundayız. Aslında başından bu yana filozoflar bizimle aynı soruları soruyor. Kendi yaşam deneyimlerinden hikâyelerle Konfüçyüs, Aristoteles, Gazali, Sartre, Epiktetos, Seneca, Hume, Başô, Kierkegaard ve Kant... Nasıl yaşayacağız? Başarı, mutluluk, matem, sevgi, irade, bağlılık gibi pek çok alanda ne yapacağız? Çoksatar kitaplarıyla bilinen filozof Julian Baggini ve varoluşçu psikoterapist Antonia Macaro Hayat’ta ironik bir anlatımla, gündelik hayatımızda ve akıl yürütme serüvenimizde bize yol gösteren bir dizi araç sunuyorlar. Bu kitap, filozofların bilgeliğinin bir özeti, düşünme ve akıl yürütme rehberi, nasıl yaşayacağımıza dair öğütler silsilesi, ve aslında bir psikoterapi kitabı... İngilizceden çeviren Esin Akşar

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Hayat: Bir Kullanım Kılavuzu

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Zωή: Οδηγίες χρήσης από τους μεγάλους φιλοσόφους

How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre. Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like- Is there a right way to grieve? What is free will? How can we learn from past mistakes? Do we make our own luck?

Life Advice from the Great Philosophers to Get You Through

Life: A User's Manual

How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions about how they should live and, from Ancient Greece to Japan, philosophers have attempted to solve these questions for us. The timeless wisdom that they offer can help us to find our own path. In this insightful, engaging book, renowned existential psychotherapist and philosophical counsellor Antonia Macaro and bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini cover topics such as bereavement, luck, free will and relationships, and guide us through what the greatest thinkers to ever walk the earth have to say on these subjects, from the Stoics to Sartre. Discover advice from the world's greatest thinkers on questions like: Is there a right way to grieve? What is free will? How can we learn from past mistakes? Do we make our own luck?

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