Author: James Dillon
Publisher: Ethics International Press
ISBN: 1871891523
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A corporate executive is miserable and seeks the help of a psychotherapist. A college student is unhappy in her current major and goes to her academic advisor. A married couple struggles with discord and seeks the help of a licensed counsellor. In each case, the diagnosis and prescription will likely be the same: you are miserable because you are not doing what you want. Your path to happiness thus lies in figuring out what you enjoy doing, coming up with a strategy to satisfy these desires, and then executing your plan. This is the standard approach to happiness used in much of today’s counselling and psychotherapeutic practice. The Socratic, Stoic, and Confucian philosophical traditions tell a different story: you are miserable because you are not doing what you must. Through historical and contemporary case studies, analyses of key novels, reviews of modern psychological research, interviews with struggling people, and close readings of philosophical texts, The Joy of Duty illuminates the intimate connection between human joy and the performance of ethical obligation.
The Joy of Duty
Author: James Dillon
Publisher: Ethics International Press
ISBN: 1871891523
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A corporate executive is miserable and seeks the help of a psychotherapist. A college student is unhappy in her current major and goes to her academic advisor. A married couple struggles with discord and seeks the help of a licensed counsellor. In each case, the diagnosis and prescription will likely be the same: you are miserable because you are not doing what you want. Your path to happiness thus lies in figuring out what you enjoy doing, coming up with a strategy to satisfy these desires, and then executing your plan. This is the standard approach to happiness used in much of today’s counselling and psychotherapeutic practice. The Socratic, Stoic, and Confucian philosophical traditions tell a different story: you are miserable because you are not doing what you must. Through historical and contemporary case studies, analyses of key novels, reviews of modern psychological research, interviews with struggling people, and close readings of philosophical texts, The Joy of Duty illuminates the intimate connection between human joy and the performance of ethical obligation.
Publisher: Ethics International Press
ISBN: 1871891523
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A corporate executive is miserable and seeks the help of a psychotherapist. A college student is unhappy in her current major and goes to her academic advisor. A married couple struggles with discord and seeks the help of a licensed counsellor. In each case, the diagnosis and prescription will likely be the same: you are miserable because you are not doing what you want. Your path to happiness thus lies in figuring out what you enjoy doing, coming up with a strategy to satisfy these desires, and then executing your plan. This is the standard approach to happiness used in much of today’s counselling and psychotherapeutic practice. The Socratic, Stoic, and Confucian philosophical traditions tell a different story: you are miserable because you are not doing what you must. Through historical and contemporary case studies, analyses of key novels, reviews of modern psychological research, interviews with struggling people, and close readings of philosophical texts, The Joy of Duty illuminates the intimate connection between human joy and the performance of ethical obligation.
JOY OF DUTY
Author: JAMES. DILLON
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ISBN: 9781804413104
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The German Lesson
Author: Siegfried Lenz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins
Our Duty & Our Joy
Author: Kuan Kim Seng
Publisher: Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9789814222280
Category : God (Christianity)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Armour Publishing Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9789814222280
Category : God (Christianity)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Joy in Duty
Author: Joy
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Languages : en
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The Joy of Kierkegaard
Author: Hugh S. Pyper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317545516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Kierkegaard has often been regarded as a gloomy thinker yet, as an evangelist, his aim was to discover the joy of the truth of Christianity. Both Kierkegaard's belief and his doubt in his own work were the result of his attempt to comprehend the exceptional experiences of biblical characters and to examine what he found most puzzling or offensive. 'The Joy of Kierkegaard' brings together the writings of one of the most influential of Kierkegaard scholars. These essays argue that Kierkegaard's most original thought arises from his struggle with biblical passages and that joy underpins his profound exploration of spiritual alienation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317545516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Kierkegaard has often been regarded as a gloomy thinker yet, as an evangelist, his aim was to discover the joy of the truth of Christianity. Both Kierkegaard's belief and his doubt in his own work were the result of his attempt to comprehend the exceptional experiences of biblical characters and to examine what he found most puzzling or offensive. 'The Joy of Kierkegaard' brings together the writings of one of the most influential of Kierkegaard scholars. These essays argue that Kierkegaard's most original thought arises from his struggle with biblical passages and that joy underpins his profound exploration of spiritual alienation.
The Way of Duty
Author: Joy Day Buel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Combining the skills of a gifted writer and a scholar's grasp of early America, The Way of Duty draws readers into a vividly evoked world.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Combining the skills of a gifted writer and a scholar's grasp of early America, The Way of Duty draws readers into a vividly evoked world.
Joy in Duty
Author: Florence Wilford
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Joy and Duty
Author: Henry Van Dyke
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Faith and Character
Author: Marvin R. Vincent
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Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Character
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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