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Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments book cover

1st Edition

Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

By Matthew J. Dennis Copyright 2021
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments as susceptible to growth, change, and improvement, but we should view these entities as amenable... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Towards a Theory of Passionate Self-Cultivation

1. The Value of Our Passionate Attachments

2. The Value of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

Part II: Enlisting the Resources of Hellenistic Philosophy

3. Revaluing Hellenism

4. Hellenistic Exercises of Self-Cultivation

Part III: Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

5. A Theory of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments

6. Practices of Passionate Self-Cultivation for Contemporary Life

Conclusion: Self-Cultivation in Practical Philosophy

Biography

Matthew J. Dennis specialises in how technology can increase human flourishing, as well as in the ethics of AI and other emerging technologies. He currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship in the Department of Values, Technology, and Innovation at TU Delft.

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