Worth Doing

Steven G. Smith is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Millsaps College.

Preface

xi

1. WORTH THINKING

1

(24)

1.1 Worth questions

1

(3)

1.2 Worth thinking as a moral system

4

(4)

1.3 Worthwhileness and worthiness

8

(4)

1.4 Worth domains

12

(3)

1.5 Transworth and religion

15

(5)

1.6 The ideal of practical lucidity

20

(2)

1.7 Human-kind bias as a problem for worth thinking

22

(3)

2. PLAY

25

(32)

2.1 The appeals of possibility

25

(8)

2.2 Play as felt: fun, gladness, and joy

33

(3)

2.3 Play as accomplished: games, prizes, tricksters, and gamblers

36

(6)

2.4 Play as known: arts and sports

42

(8)

2.5 How much should we play?

50

(2)

2.6 Being as play

52

(5)

3. WORK

57

(44)

3.1 The claims of necessity

57

(6)

3.2 Feeling work: labor

63

(6)

3.3 Work as accomplishment

69

(4)

3.4 The verbs of work

73

(5)

Making

74

(1)

Tending

74

(1)

Operating

75

(1)

Finding

75

(1)

Assisting

76

(1)

Managing

77

(1)

3.5 Knowing work

78

(15)

Product, job, occupation

79

(4)

Profession, vocation, career

83

(8)

Work and democracy

91

(2)

3.6 "Dhamma work": the transworthy reconstruction of work

93

(3)

3.7 Would God work?

96

(5)

4. ACTION PROPER

101

(36)

4.1 The conditions of honor

101

(3)

4.2 Self-display and the potentiality of collective power

104

(3)

4.3 Helping and fighting

107

(5)

4.4 Deeds, fame, and glory

112

(3)

4.5 Collective action; leading and following

115

(5)

4.6 Crime; war

120

(5)

4.7 Divine-and-human action: Greek, Hebrew, and Chinese conceptions

125

(12)

5. LOVE

137

(34)

5.1 Loving as doing

137

(2)

5.2 "True" and "higher" loves

139

(9)

Affection

141

(1)

Friendship

142

(2)

Romance (Eros)

144

(1)

Charity

145

(3)

5.3 The worth of sex

148

(4)

5.4 Marriage and divorce; eloping

152

(7)

5.5 Parenting

159

(2)

5.6 Love's limit-objects

161

(10)

The dead

161

(1)

The enemy

162

(5)

Self-love

167

(4)

6. ON THE BORDERS OF WORTH

171

(42)

6.1 Fulfilling a life plan

171

(3)

6.2 Dying

174

(9)

With dignity

176

(1)

Suddenly

176

(1)

At home, at peace, surrounded by loved ones

177

(1)

In harness

178

(1)

As purification

178

(1)

Consequentially

179

(1)

By one's own hand

180

(3)

6.3 Sleeping

183

(1)

6.4 Intoxication; the Bataillean act

184

(9)

6.5 Worship; the Sabbath; music

193

(10)

6.6 Zazen

203

(2)

6.7 Sacrifice as a crossroads of categories; queering

205

(8)

7. THE STATE OF WORTH

213

(14)

7.1 What does worth thinking accomplish?

213

(5)

7.2 Worth economics and politics

218

(3)

7.3 Worth religion

221

(3)

7.4 The pursuit of practical lucidity

224

(3)

Notes

227

(28)

Index

255

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