
- 225 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Certain Lightness in Existence
- Chapter I: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
- Chapter II: Books and the Intellectual Life
- Chapter III: āArtes LiberalesāāThe Liberal Arts
- Chapter IV: On Taking Care of Oneās Own Wisdom
- Chapter V: On the Consolations of Illiteracy, Revisited
- Chapter VI: On Knowing Nothing of Intellectual Delights
- Chapter VII: The Metaphysics of Walking
- Chapter VIII: Beyond Description: On āthe Most Wonderful Bookā
- Chapter IX: The Whole Risk for a Human Being: On the Insufficiency of Apollo
- Chapter X: On the Things That Depend on Philosophy
- Conclusion: The Things the Mind Did Not Make
- Appendix I: Schallās Twenty Books That Awaken the Mind
- Appendix II: On Education and Knowledge
- Appendix III: Reading for Clerics
- About the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright