The Limits of the Purpose-Driven Life: Can Twenty Million Readers Be Wrong?
Purposefulness is a crucial, if often unexplored, virtue. Both individuals and society require a sense of purpose if life is to involve more than, in the one case, taking one step after another on a treadmill and, on the other, standing for something other than accumulating a larger gross national product. One of the many ways in which human beings are different from other animal species is the degree to which we are able, should we opt to do so, to incorporate a sense of purpose into our actions.
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