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Index
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Prologue: The Table at Dimitri’s Taverna - ON SEEKING A PHILOSOPHY OF OLD AGE
Chapter One: The Old Greek’s Olive Trees - ON EPICURUS’S PHILOSOPHY OF FULFILLMENT
ON OLD AGE AS THE PINNACLE OF LIFE
ON FREEING OURSELVES FROM THE PRISON OF EVERYDAY AFFAIRS
EPICUREANISM AS A LIVING PHILOSOPHY TODAY
ON THE TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
ON CHOOSING AN EPICUREAN LIFE IN OLD AGE
ON THE PLEASURES OF COMPANIONSHIP IN OLD AGE
ON THE COMFORT OF COMMISERATION IN OLD AGE
ON FACING DEATH BLISSFULLY
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Chapter Two: The Deserted Terrace - ON TIME AND WORRY BEADS
ON BOREDOM IN OLD AGE
ON PLAYING IN OLD AGE
ON OLD MEN AT PLAY
ON THE ZENITH OF MY APPRECIATION OF OLD MEN AT PLAY
ON PLAYING WITH TIME
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Chapter Three: Tasso’s Rain-Spattered Photographs - ON SOLITARY REFLECTION
ON IDLE THOUGHTS
ON THE SUPERIORITY OF MENTAL PLEASURES
ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL URGE
ON AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND AUTHENTIC OLD AGE
ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IMPERATIVE
ON CHERRY-PICKING MEMORIES
ON THE WISDOM OF WILD STRAWBERRIES
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Chapter Four: A Sirocco of Youth’s Beauty - ON EXISTENTIAL AUTHENTICITY
ON SEXUAL URGES VERSUS SEXUAL NOSTALGIA
ON EXISTENTIAL AUTHENTICITY
ON EXISTENTIAL DENIAL
ON FRANK SINATRA AND A WISTFUL OLD AGE
ON ROMANTIC PLEASURES RESERVED FOR OLD AGE
ON THE GRATIFICATIONS OF BEING MARRIED IN OLD AGE
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Chapter Five: The Tintinnabulation of Sheep Bells - ON MELLOWING TO METAPHYSICS
ON THE FOLLY OF DENYING PLEASURE IN OLD AGE
ON MODERATION IN ALL THINGS
ON PONDERING TRANSCENDENT QUESTIONS IN OLD AGE
ON TAKING PHILOSOPHICAL RISKS IN OLD AGE
ON DARING TO THINK ILLOGICAL THOUGHTS IN OLD AGE
ON ALTERED CONSCIOUSNESS IN OLD AGE
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Chapter Six: Iphigenia’s Guest - ON STOICISM AND OLD OLD AGE
ON THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF DEPRESSION IN OLD OLD AGE
ON RAGE AND STOICISM
ON ENDING LIFE BEFORE IT BECOMES WORTHLESS
ON THE PRACTICABILITY OF ENDING LIFE IN OLD OLD AGE
ON ANTICIPATORY DEPRESSION IN OLD AGE
ON THE HIDDEN PERILS OF ROMANTICISM
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Chapter Seven: The Burning Boat in Kamini Harbor - ON THE TIMELINESS OF SPIRITUALITY
ON OLD PEOPLE AND THE GOD DELUSION
ON THE TIMELINESS OF SPIRITUALITY IN OLD AGE
ON ONE OLD MAN’S QUEST FOR SPIRITUALITY
ON THE HOLINESS OF THE ORDINARY
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Epilogue: Returning Home - ON A MINDFUL OLD AGE
ON GROWING OLD MINDFULLY
Acknowledgements
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