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William B. Irvine est professeur de philosophie à l’université Wright State de Dayton (Ohio, USA). Il est l’auteur de On Desire : Why We Want What We Want (non traduit en français). Simplicité, sobriété, sérénité s’est vendu à plus de 250 000 exemplaires dans sa version originale.
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How to Think More and Better

William B. Irvine


Oxford University Press

2025-12-04

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William B. Irvine, author of the popular book "A Guide to the Good Life," offers much needed philosophical advice on how to become a more rational and critical thinker in today's emotionally-driven and complex world. Even the most reasonable of us...

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Qu’attendez-vous vraiment de la vie ? Parmi toutes les choses que vous pourriez rechercher, quelle est celle que vous considérez comme la plus précieuse ? S’inspirant, avec un regard contemporain, de la sagesse des stoïciens, William B. Irvine nous invite à déterminer...

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Parution : 2025-06-04
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What are you? Obviously, you are a person with human ancestors that can be plotted on a family tree, but you have other identities as well. According to evolutionary biologists, you are a member of the species Homo sapiens and as such have ancestral species that can be...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-09-07
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Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars touched the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-12-01
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Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? In A Slap in the Face, William...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-02-01
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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-11-04
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A married person falls deeply in love with someone else.A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car.A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2005-11-01
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A married person falls deeply in love with someone else.A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car.A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a...

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Parution : 2005-11-01
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