Examined Life

I'm in the middle of reading Robert Nozick's Examined Life. As you can see from the table of contents (below)

1. Introduction
2. Dying
3. Parents and Children
4. Creating
5. The Nature of God, The Nature of Faith
6. The Holiness of Everyday Life
7. Sexuality
8. Love's Bond
9. Emotions
10. Happiness
11. Focus
12. Being More Real
13. Selflessness
14. Stances
15. Value and Meaning
16. Importance and Weight
17. The Matrix of Reality
18. Darnkness and Light
19. Theological Explanations
20. The Holocaust
21. Enlightenment
22. Giving Everything Its Due
23. What is Wisdom and Why to Philosophers Love It So?
24. The Ideal and the Actual
25. The Zigzag of Politics
26. Philosophy's Life
27. A Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man

Nozick has something to say about everything, and much of what he has to says is interesting if not entirely persuasive. I'm slugging through the middle sections on what is real (Ch. 12-17), and I like the framework, but the whole thing seems a bit more Platonically ideal than real. Nonetheless the categories he sets up seem useful and worth the effort.