Thaddeus Metz

Meaning in Life

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Produktbeschreibung

What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz argues that no existing theory does full justice to the key requirements of morality, enquiry, and creativity. He offers a new answer to the question: meaning in life is a matter of intelligence contoured toward fundamental conditions of human existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780198748014
• ISBN-10: 0198748019
• Artikelnr.: 47972070

Autorenporträt

Thaddeus Metz is Humanities Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of around one hundred professional journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries, on a variety of topics in ethical, political, and legal philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction: The Meaning of life
Part 1: Meaning as One Part of a Good Life
2: The Concept of Meaning
3: The Bearer of Meaning
4: The Value of Meaning
Part 2: Supernaturalist Theories of Meaning in Life
5: Purpose Theory I: Questioning Motivations
6: Purpose Theory II: Advancing Objections
7: Non-Purposive Supernaturalism
8: Rejecting Supernaturalism
Part 3: Naturalist Theories of Meaning in Life
9: Subjectivism
10: Objectivism I: Being Attracted, Meriting Attraction, and Promoting Consequences
11: Objectivism II: Non-Consequentialism
12: Objectivism III: The Fundamentality Theory
13: Conclusion: the fine game of nil
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index