EAN: 9780691220574

LOSING OURSELVES - JAY L GARFIELD KARTONIERT (TB)

Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves  Jay Garfield  a
leading expert on Buddhist philosophy  offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea
that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives 
our relationships  and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism  Daoism  Western
philosophy  and cognitive neuroscience  Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural to think you
have a self--and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even dangerous. Most importantly
he explains why shedding the illusion that you have a self can make you a better person.
Examining a wide range of arguments for and against the existence of the self  Losing Ourselves
makes the case that there are not only good philosophical and scientific reasons to deny the
reality of the self  but that we can lead healthier social and moral lives if we understand
that we are selfless persons. The book describes why the Buddhist idea of no-self is so
powerful and why it has immense practical benefits  helping us to abandon egoism  act more
morally and ethically  be more spontaneous  perform more expertly  and navigate ordinary life
more skillfully. Getting over the self-illusion also means escaping the isolation of
self-identity and becoming a person who participates with others in the shared enterprise of
life. The result is a transformative book about why we have nothing to lose--and everything to
gain--by losing our selves.

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