One Life to Lead : The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment

It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead -- yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life.The answer may seem obvious, but leading one's life is actually a complex, multifaceted undertaking, which requires us to negotiate deeply puzzling aspects of our experience and overcome profound challenges to our sense of ourselves and our place in the world.In One Life to Lead, Samuel Scheffler develops an "attachment-sensitive" conception of what it means to lead a recognizably human life.In so doing, he reveals hidden complexities that are latent in our understanding of ourselves and our lives.One Life to Lead focuses special attention on two interrelated dimensions of our experience: the temporal and the interpersonal.Many of the puzzles and challenges we must negotiate in leading our lives concern the passage of time, which comprehensively shapes and frequently unsettles our emotions, our attitudes, and our understanding of ourselves.Other questions concern our determination to f