Searching for Wisdom In Movies From the Book of Job to Sublime Conve
In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film. This book argues that philosophy and film can and should be used for the amelioration
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Searching for Wisdom In Movies
Richard Gilmore
Searching for Wisdom In Movies From the Book of Job to Sublime Conversations
Richard Gilmore Concordia College Moorhead, Minnesota, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-39894-5 ISBN 978-3-319-39895-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39895-2
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PREFACE
What then can help us on our way? One thing only: philosophy. —Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations, Book Two
The work that follows is meant to be read as a sustained argument that develops from chapter to chapter for the uses of philosophy and film for ameliorating life’s difficulties and for promoting life’s boons. Each chapter in the first two sections deals with one particular movie, or, in case of the two chapters in section three, a particular set of movies, and so each chapter can also be read independently and each should stand on its own. Few people will have seen all of the movies I discuss, but most people will have seen some of them. My hope is that the discussions of the movies that people have seen will attract them to watching, and then reading about, the movies they have not seen. My conviction is that philosophy is, and should be, useful. Having said that, however, just what that means is complicated. I do not think philosophy should aim at making people more money, or getting them a better job, or even making them more friends. So, what is the point of philosophy? What use is it? For me, the point of philosophy is about thinking
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