What makes life worth living? : how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mathews, Gordon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Social values > Japan.
Quality of life > Japan.
Social values > United States.
Quality of life > United States.
Conduct of life.
Valeurs sociales > Japon.
Qualité de la vie > Japon.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
Qualité de la vie > États-Unis.
Morale pratique.
ethics (philosophical concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Conduct of life
Quality of life
Social values
Japan
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The cultural foundations of Ikigai
  • Introduction: what makes life worth living? The varieties of Ikigai in Japan
  • Individualism, community, and conformity in the United States
  • The comparison of Japanese and American selves
  • pt. 2. Ikigai in Japanese and American lives. Ikigai in work and family. Ikigai and gender
  • Ikigai in past and future. Ikigai and dreams
  • Ikigai in creation and religion. Ikigai and significance
  • pt. 3. Ikigai and the meaning of life. A phenomenological analysis of Ikigai
  • Ikigai and the meaning of life.

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