Reviews
It feels like listening to gentle, helpful advice that serves as a guide to life. Rather than spelling everything out, it feels like hearing tips from someone who has lived longer. It is a comfortable read.
I read it with my child, and it contains a lot of useful information. I took detailed notes as I read. It’s a good book.
What can make us, living today, happy? The answer differs according to what many people think, but perhaps developing a critical perspective that lets us feel and understand ourselves as we are can bring us more happiness than struggling after empty desires. In this sense, Kant, a great thinker, reminds us that the happiness we can feel is found not at some other time but now, in this very moment. Someone might object, ‘I’m not happy at all right now!’ Yet shaping a sense of self based on one’s
The book looks at life through Kant’s philosophy and gives practical approaches and guidelines that individuals can learn from and use. It is an easy read, yet it lets you consider these ideas by real-life standards. Every beginning and change starts with you. The book offers advice that could be seen as a lesson in self-esteem, exploring how we understand and trust ourselves, what values and way of life we want, and how we relate to the society formed by individuals like us. If daily survival
There was a time when not only Korea but the whole world was immersed in postmodern philosophy and thought. Perhaps after World War II and France’s ‘68 Revolution, postmodernism became popular amid suspicion and criticism of authoritarianism and reason, rejection of existing authority, and an attraction to emotion and the irrational. Just as young Americans’ opposition to the Vietnam War, which began in the 1970s, gave rise to hippie culture, a culture centered on sensitivity and emotion began
In an age of competition where material things take precedence over human rights, this book teaches Kant’s guidance for a world where busy modern people can express the sacredness each carries within, even at some cost in time or competition, and do what only human beings can do: make the world a little warmer through their presence. It shows us how to shape our sense of self according to our own standards for life. We learn that helping others is not self-sacrifice; it is a way to make a
The book makes Kant’s philosophy and sayings easy to understand by connecting them with other philosophers, examples, and theories. Some chapter titles and Kant quotations do not match, but it helps readers understand Kant’s philosophy more easily.
[Today I Found Happiness with Kant] is a book that explores a range of ethical issues in modern society through philosophy. It is organized into six chapters: wisdom, right values, self, us, rational thought, and the ideal we hope for. Each chapter approaches moral and philosophical questions we encounter in everyday life from Kant’s perspective. I found myself wondering why readers continue to be interested in books like this. Perhaps it is because negative feelings such as hatred, which are
I once took a course in educational philosophy and studied many philosophers. I was young then, and their words did not resonate much because their lives and the lives we lead were separated by such a different time. As I entered working life, met many people, was hurt, and began to feel that life was fleeting and frightening, I started looking for books containing philosophers’ voices to comfort me. This book shares the words of Kant, a philosopher who emphasized reason, and offered me much
The author says their life is divided into before and after learning about Kant, so Kant must have had a great influence on them. That is likely why they unpacked Kant’s famously difficult theories through real-life insights in a way that is easy to absorb emotionally and turned them into this book. Whoever we talk to, we find that they carry their own difficulties. No one is entirely free of worries. That is why ‘How should we live?’ has always been a concern and a topic of conversation,
Iraya: I became happy after meeting Kant today.
The thing that firmly sustains your life is already within you. Stop wandering and set your life’s compass to yourself. Take a walk through life with Kant. Where we end up depends on whom we travel with and where we are going. The joy, happiness, and exhilaration we find in daily life also differ. Sometimes we face painful conflicts, like walking in shoes that do not fit and wanting to take them off at once. We cannot travel only smooth, easy roads where everything goes our way. Adapting to a rapidly changing society is hard enough; modern people driven into competition and forced to fend for themselves inevitably face even greater hardship. Even a trip taken to find some leisure can confront us with harsh realities, such as financial limits and lack of time, instead of giving us rest. Kant is reaching out to you. Let’s set out to find our way. Let’s look for room to breathe and seek a deeper perspective that can illuminate life. Here is the story of someone who changed the direction of their life after encountering Kant. They turned Kant’s sayings over in their mind like daily bread, absorbed their nourishment, and enriched the value of their life. This is a stepping-stone for living today, created by applying and adapting Kant’s ideas to knowledge gained from facing nature, literature, art, science, and society. Each time a saying is laid down as a stepping-stone, we can move forward. Onward, ever onward.
Korean title: 나는 오늘 칸트를 만나 행복해졌다
Korean author: 이라야
Korean publisher: 알토북스
ISBN-13: 9791198621467
Reviews
It feels like listening to gentle, helpful advice that serves as a guide to life. Rather than spelling everything out, it feels like hearing tips from someone who has lived longer. It is a comfortable read.
I read it with my child, and it contains a lot of useful information. I took detailed notes as I read. It’s a good book.
What can make us, living today, happy? The answer differs according to what many people think, but perhaps developing a critical perspective that lets us feel and understand ourselves as we are can bring us more happiness than struggling after empty desires. In this sense, Kant, a great thinker, reminds us that the happiness we can feel is found not at some other time but now, in this very moment. Someone might object, ‘I’m not happy at all right now!’ Yet shaping a sense of self based on one’s
The book looks at life through Kant’s philosophy and gives practical approaches and guidelines that individuals can learn from and use. It is an easy read, yet it lets you consider these ideas by real-life standards. Every beginning and change starts with you. The book offers advice that could be seen as a lesson in self-esteem, exploring how we understand and trust ourselves, what values and way of life we want, and how we relate to the society formed by individuals like us. If daily survival
There was a time when not only Korea but the whole world was immersed in postmodern philosophy and thought. Perhaps after World War II and France’s ‘68 Revolution, postmodernism became popular amid suspicion and criticism of authoritarianism and reason, rejection of existing authority, and an attraction to emotion and the irrational. Just as young Americans’ opposition to the Vietnam War, which began in the 1970s, gave rise to hippie culture, a culture centered on sensitivity and emotion began
In an age of competition where material things take precedence over human rights, this book teaches Kant’s guidance for a world where busy modern people can express the sacredness each carries within, even at some cost in time or competition, and do what only human beings can do: make the world a little warmer through their presence. It shows us how to shape our sense of self according to our own standards for life. We learn that helping others is not self-sacrifice; it is a way to make a
The book makes Kant’s philosophy and sayings easy to understand by connecting them with other philosophers, examples, and theories. Some chapter titles and Kant quotations do not match, but it helps readers understand Kant’s philosophy more easily.
[Today I Found Happiness with Kant] is a book that explores a range of ethical issues in modern society through philosophy. It is organized into six chapters: wisdom, right values, self, us, rational thought, and the ideal we hope for. Each chapter approaches moral and philosophical questions we encounter in everyday life from Kant’s perspective. I found myself wondering why readers continue to be interested in books like this. Perhaps it is because negative feelings such as hatred, which are
I once took a course in educational philosophy and studied many philosophers. I was young then, and their words did not resonate much because their lives and the lives we lead were separated by such a different time. As I entered working life, met many people, was hurt, and began to feel that life was fleeting and frightening, I started looking for books containing philosophers’ voices to comfort me. This book shares the words of Kant, a philosopher who emphasized reason, and offered me much
The author says their life is divided into before and after learning about Kant, so Kant must have had a great influence on them. That is likely why they unpacked Kant’s famously difficult theories through real-life insights in a way that is easy to absorb emotionally and turned them into this book. Whoever we talk to, we find that they carry their own difficulties. No one is entirely free of worries. That is why ‘How should we live?’ has always been a concern and a topic of conversation,
