Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author : Mieke Matthyssen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030739023
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing written by Mieke Matthyssen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the popular, yet puzzling, Chinese saying Nande hutu 难得糊涂 to uncover how the ancient Chinese wisdom of not knowing is constructed, interpreted, practiced and valued in contemporary society. Originating in the calligraphy of Qing-dynasty scholar Zheng Banqiao, Nande hutu translates literally as: “hard to attain muddle-headedness”. Mieke Matthyssen traces the historical development of this saying and related philosophies to reveal a culturally conditioned, multi-layered inclination to different forms of not knowing. In contemporary society, she argues, this inclination forms part of a living art: in some respects, a passive, evasive strategy for self-preservation; in other respects, a strategy for coping with intrapersonal, interpersonal and social complexities. Drawing on an extensive range of primary sources and original research, the analysis skillfully combines philosophical and socio-historical analysis with theory from Chinese philosophy, philosophical psychology and the relatively new field of indigenous psychology, to provide an in-depth understanding of how Nande hutu has shaped, and continues to shape, the Chinese psyche and behaviour. This book will appeal to all readers looking for fresh insights into Chinese culture, and in particular to students and scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, cultural and social anthropology, and philosophical and indigenous psychology.

Author : Susan Segovia-Munoz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530518739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Melissa written by Susan Segovia-Munoz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A withdrawn teenage girl audaciously dives into the subterranean world of drug addiction, darkness and deceit. While wholeheartedly attempting to escape the vicious merry-go-round of repetition, and haphazardly trying to slip out of the miscreant subculture, she stumbles upon one obstacle after the other.

Author : Zachariah M Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503568273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance Is Not Bliss written by Zachariah M Wells and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is promoting seeking knowledge throughout your whole life, no matter how many degrees you have.

Author : John Lloyd
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307460673
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? written by John Lloyd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lloyd and John Mitchinson have proven themselves to be masters at digging up obscure facts, abstruse information, and amusing anecdotes and presenting them effortlessly, somewhat slyly, with either great wit or at least a little bit of tongue in cheek. Their gifts are on full display in Quote Interesting, a lively, wonderfully enjoyable anthology of hundreds of quotes you probably have never heard before, arranged thematically from A to Z. From laugh-out-loud-funny bon mots to some real headscratchers, Lloyd and Mitchinson have gathered a universe of star-studded blurbs like: “The Beatles are dying in the wrong order.” —Victor Lewis Smith “When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.” —Henry James “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” —Nancy Reagan “You know ‘that look’ women get when they want sex? Me neither.” —Steve Martin

Author : Steve Legler
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460249674
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SHIFT your Family Business written by Steve Legler and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHIFT your Family Business was written for anyone who has ever worked in a family business or been part of a business family. Steve Legler grew up in one such family, and married into another, and in this, his first book, he examines the challenges that business families face, and gives readers lots of insights and ideas to help them face and overcome those challenges. Since clear, frequent, and open communication is the key to getting out of difficult situations, he walks readers through the steps of: (1) getting important conversations Started (2) getting Help from others to facilitate the discussions (3) Investing the time and effort necessary to gain the momentum to keep going (4) remaining Flexible with all their ideas and plans (5) Talking everything out to gain as much understanding and consensus as possible. He concludes with some thoughts that demystify governance, and invites business families to take on a "family office" mindset to stay focused and on track. SHIFT your Family Business is all about helping business families create the harmony they need to support the legacy they want.

Author : Fred Leavitt
Publisher : Open Books Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781948598446
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic written by Fred Leavitt and published by Open Books Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing we think we know - NOTHING - is likely to be correct. If Ignorance is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic explores the limitations of knowledge and argues that neither reasoning nor direct observation can be trusted. Not only are they unreliable sources, but they do not even justify assigning probabilities to claims about what we can know. This position, called radical skepticism, has intrigued philosophers since before the birth of Christ, yet nobody has been able to refute it. Fred Leavitt uses two unique methods of presentation. First, he supports abstract arguments with summaries of real-life examples from many and varied fields, which make the arguments much more convincing and compelling. He cites more than 200 studies from psychology, mathematics, chaos theory, quantum mechanics, evolutionary theory, history, the corporate world, politics, the military, and current news reporting. Second, Leavitt's writing is user-friendly, even when dealing with complex issues. Whether answering the telephone, turning on the TV, talking with friends, or munching on an apple, we expect things to happen predictably. These expectations, paired with radical skepticism, exemplify cognitive dissonance at the highest level.

Author : Sandy Hanna
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1682617955
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ignorance of Bliss written by Sandy Hanna and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with her American military family to Saigon, Vietnam where her father, the Colonel, serves as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army. In 1960s Saigon, Sandy finds a world of crushing poverty and extraordinary beauty; a world of streets, villas, and brothels, where politics and intrigue reside between plot and counterplot. Blissfully living a life of French decadence, Sandy maneuvers between coups, spies, bombings, corruption, and scandal as she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Tom, run an illicit baby powder and Hershey bar business on the black market and live a life of school, scouts, dance parties, and movies at the underground theater. When the Colonel’s counterpart, Colonel Le Van Sam, delivers an expose on the current ruling Diem regime, Sandy finds that her constant spying on her father’s activities has brought her face to face with the reality of Vietnam and the anti-American sentiment that pervades it. This coming-of age story takes place in a turbulent country striving for nationalism, giving the reader a stunning look into the life of military dependents living abroad and the underlying ignorance that surrounded a little understood time in history.

Author : Renata Salecl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245711
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passion for Ignorance written by Renata Salecl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between truth and falsehood and, as a result, there has been a backlash against the idea of expertise, and a rise in the number of people actively choosing not to know. The dangers of this are obvious, but Salecl challenges our assumptions, arguing that there may also be a positive side to ignorance, and that by addressing the role of ignorance in society, we may also be able to reclaim the role of knowledge. Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the incel movement—and she concludes that ignorance is a complex phenomenon that can, on occasion, benefit individuals and society as a whole. The result is a fascinating investigation of how the knowledge economy became an ignorance economy, what it means for us, and what it tells us about the world today.

Author : Zachariah M Wells
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503568261
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ignorance Is Not Bliss written by Zachariah M Wells and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My book is promoting seeking knowledge throughout your whole life, no matter how many degrees you have.

Author : Jennifer Kunst
Publisher : Central Recovery Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1937612619
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom from the Couch written by Jennifer Kunst and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple yet sophisticated model of personal growth that can lead to lasting change, drawn from the truths of psychoanalysis.