Publisher's Synopsis
An inner journey back to the search for happiness, now considered a precious asset lost in the utilitarian drift of a society that has long since divorced from human values. A secular breviary that reviews the fundamental feelings and themes of human life, suggesting advice on how to get rid of all the negative factors that have gradually settled down along the way, preventing the awakening of consciousness and the free expression of the personality. From how to give a healthy and responsible education to their children to how to approach in a useful and unconditional way the opportunities contained in the main forms of religion. From the need to reconsider the true meaning of the words love and friendship to the need to rationalize and modify the impulse to hatred and selfishness. From the need to know how to orient oneself between material and immaterial goods to that of rediscovering the authentic value of brotherhood, peace and freedom. To the re-establishment of a correct and fruitful relationship with nature... After the wide recognition obtained with his first book The Possible Utopia. Changing the world - finalist of the 2008 Carver Prize for non-fiction - Piero Pierdiluca returns to the bookstore - again from Armando Editore - with a new text of great and confident optimism. An essay on philosophy for all, light and dense at the same time, which reminds us that the starting point of any possible path to happiness can in no way ignore the assumption of a full awareness of the need to change ourselves. To rediscover ourselves and go back to measuring our ability to fix the pure substance of life, the one we often invoke in the darkest moments of our existence - like this one we are going through - in an ever-increasing humanization of the world. Leveraging a language that is more oracular and exhortative than scientific and clarifying, Piero Pierdiluca guides the reader towards the exit from all forms of mental laziness and addiction to reality. At the service of his project he has put an undeniable passion and the ability to suggest and be heard, to free thought from the bottlenecks of habit and open it to adventure and dream.