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Self and non-self in early Buddhism
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ISBN: 9027979871 1306272963 3110804166 311175202X 9783110804164 9789027979872 Year: 1980 Volume: 22 Publisher: The Hague: Mouton,

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Insights into Buddhism.Selected Essays on Buddhist, Philosophy, Art and History
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ISBN: 8170310223 Year: 1986 Publisher: Delhi Sri Satguru Publications / Indian Books Centre

Selfless persons : imagery and thought in Theravada Buddhism
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ISBN: 0521240816 052139726X 0511621493 0511867220 9780521240819 9780511621499 9780521397261 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in man. The author relates this doctrine to its cultural and historical context, particularly to its Brahmanical background, and shows how the Theravada Buddhist tradition has constructed a philosophical and psychological account of personal identity and continuity on the apparently impossible basis of the denial of self.


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Midlife : A Philosophical Guide
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ISBN: 0691173931 0691183287 1400888476 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle ageHow can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps.Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.

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Middle age --- Midlife crisis. --- Psychological aspects. --- A Book Of. --- Accountant. --- Adoption. --- Affair. --- Altruism. --- Anatta. --- Aphorism. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Awareness. --- Bernard Williams. --- Boredom. --- Buddhism. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Career. --- Cognitive therapy. --- Consciousness. --- Death anxiety (psychology). --- Derek Parfit. --- Elliott Jaques. --- Emptiness. --- Epicurus. --- Equanimity. --- Ethics. --- Existence. --- Existential crisis. --- Explanation. --- Felicific calculus. --- Four Noble Truths. --- Generosity. --- Grief. --- Hedonism. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Immanuel Kant. --- Injunction. --- Irony. --- James Mill. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Jeremy Bentham. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Lecture. --- Literature. --- Lucretius. --- Meaningful life. --- Middle age. --- Midlife crisis. --- Narrative. --- Neglect. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Oppression. --- Optimism. --- Parenting. --- Parerga and Paralipomena. --- Personal History. --- Phenomenon. --- Philip Larkin. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Pleasure. --- Poetry. --- Polemic. --- Precedent. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prose. --- Protest. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Quantity. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Retrograde amnesia. --- Risk aversion. --- Sadness. --- Satisficing. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-help book. --- Self-interest. --- Shame. --- Simone de Beauvoir. --- Skepticism. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Symptom. --- The Myth of Sisyphus. --- The Other Hand. --- The Power of Now. --- Theory. --- Thought experiment. --- Thought. --- Toothache. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Utilitarianism. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Wealth. --- Well-being. --- Wishful thinking. --- Writing. --- Year.

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