Sailing - Philosophy For Everyone. Catching the Drift of Why We Sail

Englisch

9780470671856, 9780470671856

John Wiley & Sons

216

Taschenbuch

Foreword: The Craft and the Mystery viii John Rousmaniere The Philosophical Sailor: An Introduction to Sailing - Philosophy for Everyone xiv Patrick Goold Acknowledgments xxiii PART 1 PASSING THROUGH PAIN AND FEAR IN THE PLACE OF PERPETUAL UNDULATION 1 1 Ships of Wood and Men of Iron: Voyaging the Old-Fashioned Way and Seeking Meaning in Adversity 3 Jack Stillwaggon 2 Winning Philosophy: Developing Patience, Inner Strength, and an Eye for the Good Lanes 12 Gary Jobson 3 "Hard a' Lee": Why the Work of Sailing Can Be Great Fun 23 Crista Lebens 4 Solo Sailing as Spiritual Practice: A Phenomenology of Mastery and Failure at Sea 36 Richard Hutch PART 2 THE MEANING OF THE BOAT THREE SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT 47 5 Buddha's Boat: The Practice of Zen in Sailing 49 James Whitehill 6 Freedom of the Seas: The Stoic Sailor 61 Gregory Bassham and Tod Bassham 7 Sailors of the Third Kind: Sailing and Self-Becoming in the Shadow of Heraclitus 72 Steven Horrobin PART 3 BEAUTY AND OTHER AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF THE SAILING EXPERIENCE 83 8 What the Race to Mackinac Means 85 Nicholas Hayes 9 Sailing, Flow, and Fulfillment 96 Steve Matthews 10 On the Crest of the Wave: The Sublime, Tempestuous, Graceful, and Existential Facets of Sailing 109 Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Luísa Gagliardini Graça, and José Ángel Jáuregui-Olaiz 11 Navigating What Is Valuable and Steering a Course in Pursuit of Happiness 122 Jesse Steinberg and Michael Stuckart PART 4 PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL SAILOR 133 12 Do You Have to Be (an) Einstein to Understand Sailing? 135 Sebastian Kuhn 13 Paradoxes of Sailing: The Physics of Sailing and the Import of Thought Experiments 148 John D. Norton 14 The Necessity of Sailing: Of Gods, Fate, and the Sea 164 Tamar M. Rudavsky and Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody 15 The Channel: An Old Drama by Which the Soul of a Healthy Man is Kept Alive 176 Hilaire Belloc Notes on Contributors 180

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