belshazzar679
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Could someone give me an analysis of these two texts (in relation to journeys):
- Cover of "The Motorcycle Diaries"
and
- Extract from "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton, as follows:
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few actvities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for survival. Yet rarely are they considered to present philosophical problems - that is, issues requiring thought beyond the practical. We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little of why and how we should go - though the art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonai or human flourishing.
I will have to answer questions on these texts in an exam on Monday, so it is rather urgent.
- Cover of "The Motorcycle Diaries"
and
- Extract from "The Art of Travel" by Alain de Botton, as follows:
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few actvities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside the constraints of work and the struggle for survival. Yet rarely are they considered to present philosophical problems - that is, issues requiring thought beyond the practical. We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little of why and how we should go - though the art of travel seems naturally to sustain a number of questions neither so simple nor so trivial and whose study might in modest ways contribute to an understanding of what the Greek philosophers beautifully termed eudaimonai or human flourishing.
I will have to answer questions on these texts in an exam on Monday, so it is rather urgent.