This volume reveals the wisdom we can learn from sailing, a sport that pits human skills against the elements, tests the mettle and is a rich source of valuable lessons in life-- This volume reveals the wisdom we can learn from sailing, a sport that pits human skills against the elements, tests the mettle and is a rich source of valuable lessons in life. Unravels the philosophical mysteries behind one of the oldest organized human activities Features contributions from philosophers and academics as well as from sailors themselves Enriches appreciation of the sport by probing its meaning and value Brings to life the many applications of philosophy to sailing and the profoundlessons it can teach us A thought-provoking read for sailors and philosophers alike -- This volume reveals the wisdom we can learn from sailing, a sport that pits human skills against the elements, tests the mettle and is a rich source of valuable lessons in life.Unravels the philosophical mysteries behind one of the oldest organized human activitiesFeatures contributions from philosophers and academics as well as from sailors themselves Enriches appreciation of the sport by probing its meaning and valueBrings to life the many applications of philosophy to sailing and the profound lessons it can teach usA thought-provoking read for sailors and philosophers alike
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| The Philosophical Sailor: An Introduction to Sailing - Philosophy for Everyone |
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| Acknowledgments |
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PART 1 PASSING THROUGH PAIN AND FEAR IN THE PLACE OF PERPETUAL UNDULATION |
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1 Ships of Wood and Men of Iron: Voyaging the Old-Fashioned Way and Seeking Meaning in Adversity |
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2 Winning Philosophy: Developing Patience, Inner Strength, and an Eye for the Good Lanes |
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3 "Hard a' Lee": Why the Work of Sailing Can Be Great Fun |
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4 Solo Sailing as Spiritual Practice: A Phenomenology of Mastery and Failure at Sea |
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PART 2 THE MEANING OF THE BOAT THREE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT |
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5 Buddha's Boat: The Practice of Zen in Sailing |
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6 Freedom of the Seas: The Stoic Sailor |
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7 Sailors of the Third Kind: Sailing and Self-Becoming in the Shadow of Heraclitus |
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PART 3 BEAUTY AND OTHER AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF THE SAILING EXPERIENCE |
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8 What the Race to Mackinac Means |
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9 Sailing, Flow, and Fulfillment |
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10 On the Crest of the Wave: The Sublime, Tempestuous, Graceful, and Existential Facets of Sailing |
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11 Navigating What Is Valuable and Steering a Course in Pursuit of Happiness |
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PART 4 PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL SAILOR |
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12 Do You Have to Be (an) Einstein to Understand Sailing? |
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13 Paradoxes of Sailing: The Physics of Sailing and the Import of Thought Experiments |
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14 The Necessity of Sailing: Of Gods, Fate, and the Sea |
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15 The Channel: An Old Drama by Which the Soul of a Healthy Man is Kept Alive |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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Editor Patrick Goold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Wesleyan College. His current research focuses on defining rationality. He is co-editor with Steven Emmanuel of the Blackwell anthology Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Nietzsche. Patrick is passionate about sailing, and, in addition to maintaining a small daysailer and a cruising boat of his own, frequently crews on the boats of others. The bays and sounds of Virginia and North Carolina are his home waters but he has sailed the length of the East Coast of the United States from Hilton Head to Long Island Sound, made a Bermuda crossing, done club racing in Brittany, and cruised in the Lesser Antilles.
Series Editor Fritz Allhoff is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy department at Western Michigan University, as well as a senior research fellow at the Australian National Universitys Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, he is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine and Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey and Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food and Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.
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