您如何使自己与永远不会过的生活，丧失的可能性以及对迷失的青春的怀旧相调和？您如何才能接受过去的失败，在消耗当下的任务中徒劳的感觉，以及对未来造成破坏的死亡前景？在这本与众不同的自助书中，基兰·塞蒂娅（Kieran Setiya）面临着成年和中年不可避免的挑战，展示了哲学如何帮助您蓬勃发展。您将了解为什么错过机会可能是一件好事，如何高估选择权，以及何时应该感到高兴才犯了错。
我们将为您介绍死亡率的哲学安慰。您将了解生活在当下意味着什么，它如何解决您的中年危机，以及冥想为何有帮助。从《亚里士多德》，《叔本华》和《约翰·斯图尔特·米尔》到弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和西蒙·德·波伏娃，并借鉴Setiya自己的经验，《中年》结合了富有想象力的想法，令人惊讶的见解和实用建议。
Setiya用智慧和机智写作，为哲学提供了一个苦恼却充满激情的案例，作为人生指南。
How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive. You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps. Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya’s own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.
