| Ideals and Meaningfulness Contributor(s): Grahle, André (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786611422 ISBN-13: 9781786611420 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of June 17, 2025 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Movements - Analytic |
| Physical Information: 176 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The book develops a theory of ideals as conceptions of admirable ways of being. It provides a story of what it means to have an ideal and why the rationality of acquiring one's ideals implies a greater degree of selectivity than does our admiration for the manifestation of ideals in others. Having ideals is understood as a relationship between an agent and an ideal, consisting of a set of emotional dispositions, at the heart of which lies a feeling of a calling to be as represented by the ideal. This relationship is normatively significant. It provides the agent with a reason to try to live up to one's ideal. The question arises, moreover, whether a life suffused with ideals is a better life. Here it is argued that the pursuit of one's ideals doesn't necessarily make one happier, but has the potential of rendering one's life more meaningful in a number of ways. |