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Alpert, Avram. The good-enough life / Avram Alpert. — 1 online resource (vii, 323 pages) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/3036584.pdf>.Record create date: 10/23/2021 Subject: Self-realization.; Ability.; Conduct of life.; Aptitude; Réalisation de soi.; Aptitude.; Morale pratique.; PHILOSOPHY / Social.; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General.; Ability.; Conduct of life.; Self-realization. Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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"How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society"--.
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Table of Contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Why Greatness Is Not Good Enough
- The Origins of “Good Enough”
- A Long History of Overcoming Greatness
- Recalibrating
- The Two Economies
- Lost Einstein Myths
- But, Come On, Aren’t There Good Forms of Greatness?
- Cold, Broken, But Still Hallelujah
- A Good-Enough Life for All
- 2. For Our Selves
- In the Beginning
- It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid
- The Return of Virtue
- Meritocracy, No. Greatness, Maybe.
- Virtues beyond Greatness
- The World As It Already Is
- Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
- Philosophies Born of Struggle
- 3. For Our Relationships
- Romantic Stories
- A Circular Journey
- A Theory of Laughter
- The Paradoxes of Kindness to Strangers
- To Heaven or A-fishing
- As Zhuangzi and Huizi Were
- We’ll See
- If This Is Good Enough
- A Good-Enough President?
- 4. For Our World
- The Path of Pinheads
- The Road to Serfdom
- The Good-Enough Transformation
- Why Philanthropy Is Not the Answer
- Some Plans for a Good-Enough World
- Limiting the Positional Economy
- A Thought Experiment
- 5. For Our Planet
- Wired for Whatever
- Surviving the Fittest
- Evolving to Be Good Enough
- The Risk of Great Green Revolutions
- More with Less, or More from Less?
- Sharing in the Burden and the Bounty
- A Good-Enough Relation to Nature
- The Good-Enough Sublime
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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