The Second Mountain

The Quest for a Moral Life

9780141990903
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Waar gaat het over?


Are you on your first or second mountain?
Is life about you - or others?
About success - or something deeper?

The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting.

This is the second mountain.

What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget about independence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a web of warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion, responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second Mountain David Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling a second mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonly move us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring, personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you were really put on this earth.

Over de auteur

Brooks, David (Auteur)

David Brooks (1961) is auteur en al jaren een van de bestgelezen columnisten van The New York Times. Hij heeft meerdere bestsellers geschreven, waaronder De tweede berg. Hij geeft les aan de Yale University en is lid van de American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Specificaties

Auteur(s) Brooks, David, Brooks, David
ISBN 9780141990903
Uitvoering Paperback
Uitgeverij Veltman Distributie Import Books
Gewicht 287 gr
Taal Engels
Verschijningsdatum 28-05-2020
Afmeting 195 x 127 x 27 mm
Aantal bladzijdes 384