Design for Living: Regard, Concern, Service, and Love

By Robert Friedmann

Book Overview

Written in 1954 but unpublished in his lifetime, Robert Friedmann's Design for Living asks that pertinent existential question: how should we live? Drawing on literary, philosophical, and theological sources, Friedmann's answer begins with a critique of utilitarian ethics and popular apathy, and proceeds through an existential preparation that ascends in confessional style to the question of the meaning of human life, culminating in a fourfold set of principles: regard, concern, service, and love. Along the way, Friedmann's critical eye remains clearly fixed on his object of study--lived experience, and not abstract principles detached from day-to-day life--and he intentionally guides his reader step by step up the mountain of spiritual and ethical inquiry in a deliberate and serious attempt to educate the heart, mind, and soul. At once accessible and scholarly, while troubling our contemporary divide between religion and the secular, Design for Living presents a rare vision of human meaning and purpose that will appeal to scholarly and public readers alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532632053
• ISBN13: 9781532632051
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"