Tag: Examined

The Examined Run Why Good People Make Better Runners [Audiobook]

Free Download Sabrina B. Little, Patricia Shade (Narrator), "The Examined Run: Why Good People Make Better Runners"
English | ASIN: B0DDZ6L7MZ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:41:00 | 266 MB
Can running make me a more moral person? Can striving to be a better person make me a better runner?
In The Examined Run, philosopher and ultramarathon runner Sabrina B. Little asks whether running can be a laboratory for developing our character. She looks at the key ideas in virtue ethics-virtue, vice, exemplarism, moral emotions, and competition-and brings them into conversation with her experience in training and racing. Little pushes against the frequent conversations about ethics and sport that focus on the negative-doping and other forms of cheating or on simplistic expressions like "no pain, no gain." She argues that these ideas don’t address the rich picture of how athletics inform a good life, and sport’s relationship to acts of justice or courage. A good athlete is not just one who avoids cheating-rather, they perform feats of perseverance and courage, and succeed by working to develop their natural capacities. Little employs her own experiences in training, coaching, and racing in world class ultramarathons to reveal how athletics and virtue are deeply interconnected.

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Terrence Malick and the Examined Life


Free Download Terrence Malick and the Examined Life (Intellectual History of the Modern Age) by Martin Woessner
English | March 25, 2024 | ISBN: 1512825603 | True EPUB/PDF | 416 pages | 26.2/41.3 MB
Terrence Malick is one of American cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers. His films―from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)―have been heralded for their artistry and lauded for their beauty, but what really sets them apart is their ideas. Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of this unparalleled filmmaker’s intellectual and artistic development.

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