The meaning of life : a reader

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The meaning of life : a reader

edited by E.D. Klemke, Steven M. Cahn

Oxford University Press, c2018

4th ed

  • : pbk

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内容説明

The Meaning of Life is the preeminent anthology on the topic. Featuring twenty-five insightful selections by prominent philosophers, it serves as an ideal core text for courses on the meaning of life and introduction to philosophy courses where the topic is emphasized. In Part I the articles defend the view that without faith in God, life has no meaning or purpose. In Part II the selections oppose this claim, defending instead a nontheistic, humanistic alternative-that life can have meaning even in the absence of theistic commitment. In Part III the readings address whether the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningful. A new Part IV on the end of life raises issues about how understanding death affects our understanding of the meaning of life.

目次

*=New to this Edition Preface to the Fourth Edition: Preface to the Third Edition: Preface to the Second Edition: Introduction. The Question of the Meaning of Life, E. D. Klemke PART ONE. THE THEISTIC ANSWER 1. Leo Tolstoy: My Confession 2. Philip L. Quinn: The Meaning of Life According to Christianity 3. Emil L. Fackenheim: Judaism and the Meaning of Life * 4. Christopher W. Gowans: The Buddha's Message * 5. Henry Rosemont, Jr.: The Confucian Way PART TWO. THE NONTHEISTIC ALTERNATIVE 6. Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World 7. Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship 8. Moritz Schlick: On the Meaning of Life 9. Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus 10. Kurt Baier: The Meaning of Life 11. Paul Edwards: The Meaning and Value of Life 12. Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life 13. Thomas Nagel: The Absurd 14. Joel Feinberg: Absurd Self-Fulfillment 15. E. D. Klemke: Living Without Appeal: An Affirmative Philosophy of Life PART THREE. QUESTIONING THE QUESTION 16. John Wisdom: The Meanings of the Questions of Life 17. Robert Nozick: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life 18. Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life * 19. Christine Vitrano: Meaningful Lives * PART FOUR. THE END OF LIFE * 20. Thomas Nagel: Death * 21. Bernard Williams: The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality * 22. John Martin Fischer: Why Immortality Is Not So Bad * 23. Samuel Scheffler: The Afterlife * 24. Harry G. Frankfurt: How the Afterlife Matters * 25. Susan Wolf: The Significance of Doomsday About the Contributors:

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB26271230
  • ISBN
    • 9780190674199
  • LCCN
    2017001346
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New York
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 260 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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