The Examined Life: The Art of Knowing, Owning, and Giving Yourself

by Dennis M. Helming

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Summary

Why should I care about the moral life? Because it makes me happy. Unlike other books on morality, this one focuses on why we should bother to live virtuously. Each person's own experience, if he knows how to examine it, teaches that the deep human hunger for happiness is satisfied only by a virtuous life. And with the right road map, a virtuous life is possible. The Examined Life is full of practical wisdom for the moral journey to happiness, a journey that passes from knowing yourself to owning yourself to giving yourself. Helming zeroes in on the concrete struggles of everyday life where the virtues are really lived(struggles involving chastity, work, study, friendship, love, marriage, and parenthood. Each chapter concludes with a dozen or so practical points to work on. The book includes a thought-provoking(if often amusing(list of "45 Ways to be Chaste" and a bibliography for further reading.

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