Ebook {Epub PDF} Does It Matter? by Alan W. Watts

 · Does It Matter? presents Alan Watts’ thoughts on the problem of humankind’s relationship to its environment. Here he argues that contemporary people confuse symbols with reality, preferring money to wealth and “eating the menu instead of the dinner.”Brand: New World Library. ALSO BY ALAN WATTS AVAILABLE FROM VINTAGE Behold the Spirit Beyond Theology The Book Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown Does It Matter? In My Own Way Nature, Man and Woman Psychotherapy East and West The Supreme Identity This Is It. This is a series of essays representing philosopher Alan Watts's most recent thinking on the astonishing problems of man's relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd /5().

― Alan W. Watts, Does It Matter? tags: humor, politics. 1 likes. Like "The reality of money is of the same type as the reality of centimeters, grams, hours, or lines of longitude. Money is a way of measuring wealth but is not wealth in itself. A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone. Does It Matter? presents Alan Watts' thoughts on the problem of humankind's relationship to its environment. Here he argues that contemporary people confuse symbols with reality, preferring money to wealth and "eating the menu instead of the dinner." Focusing on numbers, concepts, and technology, he says, makes us increasingly. Buy Does It Matter? by Alan W Watts online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at $ Shop now.

Does It Matter? by Alan W. Watts. Vintage. Mass Market Paperback. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Does it matter? Alan Watts's "Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality". In this short collection of essays, Alan Watts explores modern day problems from the outlook of his own philosophy, inspired mainly by Mahayana Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. Click to read more about Does It Matter? by Alan W. Watts. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.