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This book nurtures both mind and soul. Drawing from religion, philosophy, psychology, and using contemporary examples, Dr. Malikow offers inspiring insight into how to strive for a good life. This book is not about happiness as "persistent pleasure" but happiness as "overall life contentment." As stated in its title, it is concerned with a good life and how to attain it.

For each of us, if life is to be experienced as worthwhile, if not thrilling, and occasionally pleasant, if not joyful, our diligence is required. Even the most enviable of lives includes challenges, disappointments, frustrations, and confusions. There is a word for circumstances that challenge, disappoint, frustrate, and confuse - that word is predicament. Being a human being is not easy. Every advantage we enjoy seems to be accompanied by a disadvantage. We can acquire information, but also experience the frustration of forgetting. We can create, but also be tormented with "writer's block." We can know the euphoria of being in love, but also suffer heartbreak from a lover's rejection. These are but a few of the phenomena that can make life difficult, troubling, perplexing, and, perhaps, a predicament.

The intention of this book is to explain moral diversity and the conflict it sometimes generates between individuals, groups, and nations. Hopefully it will be helpful in our continuing effort to communicate with each other. Each chapter poses a question that is answered in a concise, thought provoking manner. It provokes one to think by the questions in each chapter. - How do ethics and morals differ? What are the methodologies people use for distinguishing right from wrong? Does the end always justify the means? How is a moral decision to be made when duties are in conflict? Is morality simply a matter of having a certain feeling about something? Can people be good without God? This book could be used as an introductory textbook or reading material for anyone interested in the issues that comprise moral philosophy.

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, "Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, (but) once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." Irvin Yalom asked, "How does a being who needs meaning find meaning in a meaningless universe?" Sartre and Yalom are two of nine philosophers featured in this introduction to existentialism. Written in user-friendly, unambiguous language, Mere Existentialism provides a rudimentary understanding of this philosophical school of thought.