The Life of the Mind
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The Life of the Mind

On the Joys and Travails of Thinking

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Life of the Mind

On the Joys and Travails of Thinking

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In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is.In this volume, Schall, author of On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs, among many other volumes of philosophical and political reflection, discusses the various ways of approaching the delight of thinking and the way that this delight begins in seeing and hearing and even in making and walking. We must be attentive to and cultivate the needs of the mind, argues Schall, for it is through our intellect that all that is not ourselves is finally returned to us, allowing us to live in the light of truth.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: A Certain Lightness in Existence
  6. Chapter I: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
  7. Chapter II: Books and the Intellectual Life
  8. Chapter III: ā€˜Artes Liberales’—The Liberal Arts
  9. Chapter IV: On Taking Care of One’s Own Wisdom
  10. Chapter V: On the Consolations of Illiteracy, Revisited
  11. Chapter VI: On Knowing Nothing of Intellectual Delights
  12. Chapter VII: The Metaphysics of Walking
  13. Chapter VIII: Beyond Description: On ā€œthe Most Wonderful Bookā€
  14. Chapter IX: The Whole Risk for a Human Being: On the Insufficiency of Apollo
  15. Chapter X: On the Things That Depend on Philosophy
  16. Conclusion: The Things the Mind Did Not Make
  17. Appendix I: Schall’s Twenty Books That Awaken the Mind
  18. Appendix II: On Education and Knowledge
  19. Appendix III: Reading for Clerics
  20. About the Author
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index
  24. Copyright