The Virtues of Disillusionment

• 1. autor: Heighton, Steven (auth)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: Canada Athabasca University Press 2020
• Hasła przedmiotowe: Philosophy; philosophy; literature; Canadian literature; canlit; writing tips; how to; be happy; reduce stress; love life; self-help; imagination; inner demons; ego
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Most people go through life chasing illusions of success, fame, wealth, happiness, and few things are more painful than the reality-revealing loss of an illusion. But if illusions are negative, why is the opposite, being disillusioned, also negative? In this essay based on his inaugural writer-in-re...