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On Habit

Paperback • 2014 • English • 1. edition

On Habit

By Clare Carlisle

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About the book

For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. However, for Proust habit is problematic: 'if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from knowing our first.' What is habit? Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more creative things? Should religious faith be habitual? Does habit help or hinder the practice of philosophy? Why do Luther, Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard and Bergson all criticise habit? If habit is both a blessing and...Show more

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9780415619141

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2014

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

On Habit

Format

Paperback

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