Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths: A Realist's View of the Human Condition

This book is a kind of reference volume, a partial one for sure, for making sense of the human world and of the hard work of human soul-making or, simply. No synthesis is offered for the list of inconvenient truths collected her, for the simple reason that there isn't - nor can there be - a single underlying cause that makes life what it is. If this book has a central thesis, it's one that is neither a revelation nor a secret: the human condition has much room for improvement. Working out possible ways of improving it is left as an exercise for the reader.