caa a22 4500 388110074 CHVBK 20180307125351.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0265052500002260 doi S0265052500002260 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0265052500002260 Larmore Charles Philosophy, University of Chicago The Idea of a Life Plan [Elektronische Daten] [Charles Larmore] When philosophers undertake to say what it is that makes life worth living, they generally display a procrustean habit of thought which the practice of philosophy itself does much to encourage. As a result, they arrive at an image of the human good that is far more controversial than they suspect. The canonical view among philosophers ancient and modern has been, in essence, that the life lived well is the life lived in accord with a rational plan. To me this conception of the human good seems manifestly wrong. The idea that life should be the object of a plan is false to the human condition. It misses the important truth which Proust, by contrast, discerned and made into one of the organizing themes of his great meditation on disappointment and revelation, A la recherche du temps perdu: The happiness that life affords is less often the good we have reason to pursue than the good that befalls us unexpectedly. Copyright © Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation 1999 Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 96-112 0265-0525 16:1<96 1999 16 SOY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002260 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052500002260 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Larmore Charles Philosophy, University of Chicago NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Philosophy and Policy Cambridge University Press 16/1(1999), 96-112 0265-0525 16:1<96 1999 16 SOY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge