Life worth living : a guide to what matters most

Life worth living A guide to what matters most

Miroslav Volf

Book - 2023

"A guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, based on the popular class at Yale What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one's own life, for the underlying truth. In A Life Worth Living, named after its authors' highly sought-after undergraduate course, Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz chart out this question, providing reader...s with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for figuring out where their lives hold meaning and where things need to change. Drawing from the major world religions and from impressively truthful and courageous secular figures, A Life Worth Living is a guide to life's most pressing question, the one asked of all of us: How are we to live?"--

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Subjects
Life.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Self-realization.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Published
New York : The Open Field/Penguin Life [2023]
Language
English
Main Author
Miroslav Volf (author)
Other Authors
Matthew Croasmun, 1979- (author), Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Physical Description
xxxiv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780593489307
  • Introduction: This Book Might Wreck Your Life
  • Part 1. Diving In
  • 1. What's Worth Wanting?
  • 2. Where Are We Starting From?
  • Part 2. The Depths
  • 3. Who Do We Answer To?
  • 4. How Does a Good Life Feel?
  • 5. What Should We Hope For?
  • 6. How Should We Live?
  • Part 3. Bedrock
  • 7. The Recipe Test
  • 8. The Really Big Picture
  • Part 4. Facing the Limits
  • 9. When We (Inevitably) Botch It
  • 10. When Life Hurts …
  • 11. … And There's No Fixing It
  • 12. When It Ends
  • Part 5. Back to the Surface
  • 13. It Turns Out We Have Some Work to Do
  • 14. Change Is Hard
  • 15. Making It Stick
  • Epilogue: What Matters Most
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
Review by Booklist Review

Inspired by the highly popular undergraduate course they teach at Yale, authors-professors-theologians Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz's book for all seasons and all reasons might prove, at times, uncomfortable for readers. Worthy of being savored, though, it will offer weeks, if not months, of reflection. The authors aim to help anyone examine their wants, goals, hopes, and responsibilities, using conversational language, short chapters, and end-of-chapter questions to ponder. Pulling from ancients and moderns as wide-ranging as Aristotle and Krishna, Buddha and Drake, the authors piece together answers to such questions as what's worth wanting, who we answer to, how we face the limits (and the end) of life, and how we deal with change. Readers will recognize time-tested quotes like "be thyself" (in today's parlance, "you do you") and "what doesn't kill us . . ." and, ultimately, an arrow pointing to what matters most. Individuals will find more than one answer to every question posed, and a final, valuable encomium: "Your life is too valuable to be guided by anything less than what matters most." A must-read for any age.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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