NECESSARY WISDOM: Jacob Needleman: Talks about God, Time, Money, Love, and the Need for Philosophy
Fearless Books, 2013. Jacob Needleman in conversation with D. Patrick Miller; 127 pages. Item #16545
Paperback in new condition.
How much of the deprivation felt by modern Westerners can be summed up by the complaints “If only I had more time…” and “If only I felt more love…”? (Throw in “more money” and you’ve just about got all our habitual wants summed up.) If philosopher Jacob Needleman is right, we will not find more love in online dating services nor any extra time in a new iPhone app. Instead, we must turn these searches in on themselves to ask why we seek so incessantly for more of such immeasurables. By confronting our habitual desires and complaints, he suggests, we may pry open the door to the realm of the inner life — where both time and love reveal themselves not as problems to be solved but questions to be lived with.
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