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Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity s search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers.
Cutting-edge viewpoint features the most recent contributions to the debate Extensive general introduction offers unprecedented context Leading contemporary philosophers provide insightful introductions to each section
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Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity s search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers.
Cutting-edge viewpoint features the most recent contributions to the debate
Extensive general introduction offers unprecedented context
Leading contemporary philosophers provide insightful introductions to each section
Cutting-edge viewpoint features the most recent contributions to the debate
Extensive general introduction offers unprecedented context
Leading contemporary philosophers provide insightful introductions to each section
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 512
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 860g
- ISBN-13: 9780470658796
- ISBN-10: 0470658797
- Artikelnr.: 35289023
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 512
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 860g
- ISBN-13: 9780470658796
- ISBN-10: 0470658797
- Artikelnr.: 35289023
Joshua W. Seachris (PhD, University of Oklahoma) is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, as well as Grant Administrator for The Character Project, which aims to map the contours of the human character by funding key research in philosophy, psychology and theology. He is the author of peer-reviewed articles on a range of topics in philosophy, including the problem of evil, Confucius and virtue, the meaning of life, and death. His work has appeared in the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Asian Philosophy, Philo, Religious Studies, and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. With Section Introductions by: John Cottingham (DPhil, Oxford University) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His recent titles include On the Meaning of Life (Routledge, 2003), The Spiritual Dimension (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Cartesian Reflections (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Why Believe? (Continuum, 2009). He is editor of the international philosophical journal Ratio. John Martin Fischer (PhD, Cornell University) is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has held a University of California President's Chair (2006-10). He is the editor of The Metaphysics of Death (Stanford University Press, 1993), and many of his articles on death, immortality, and the meaning of life are collected in his Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2011). Thaddeus Metz (PhD, Cornell University) is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His work on developing and evaluating theoretical approaches to what makes a life meaningful has appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, Ethics, Ratio, Religious Studies, and Utilitas. His book, Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Garrett Thomson (DPhil, Oxford University) teaches philosophy at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, where he holds the Compton Chair. He is the author of several books, including On Kant (Wadsworth, 2003), On the Meaning of Life (Wadsworth 2002), Una Introducción a la Práctica de la Filosofía (PanAmericana, 2002), Bacon to Kant (Waveland Press, 2001), On Leibniz (Wadsworth, 2001), and Needs (Routledge, 1987). With Daniel Kolak, he co-edited the six volumes of the Longman Standard History of Philosophy (Longman's Press, 2006). He is chief executive officer of the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace. Erik J. Wielenberg (PhD, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He is the author of Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and God and the Reach of Reason (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Notes on Contributors viii Preface x Personal Acknowledgments xii
Acknowledgments xiii General Introduction 1 Joshua W. Seachris Section I
Understanding the Question of Life's Meaning 21 Introduction 23 Thaddeus
Metz 1.1 Why 29 Paul Edwards 1.2 Untangling the Questions 40 Garrett
Thomson 1.3 Questions about the Meaning of Life 48 R. W. Hepburn 1.4
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life 62 Robert Nozick 1.5 The Concept of a
Meaningful Life 79 Thaddeus Metz 1.6 Assessing Views of Life: A Subjective
Affair? 95 Arjan Markus Section II What Does God Have to Do with the
Meaning of Life? 113 Introduction 115 John Cottingham 2.1 Ecclesiastes 121
2.2 On Living in an Atomic Age 133 C. S. Lewis 2.3 Is the Existence of God
Relevant to the Meaning of Life? 138 Jeffrey Gordon 2.4 The Absurdity of
Life without God 153 William Lane Craig 2.5 Is Nature Enough? 173 John
Haught 2.6 Religion and Value: The Problem of Heteronomy 183 John
Cottingham 2.7 Could God's Purpose Be the Source of Life's Meaning? 200
Thaddeus Metz Section III The Loss of Meaning in a World Without God:
Pessimistic Naturalism 219 Introduction 221 Garrett Thomson 3.1 On the
Vanity of Existence 227 Arthur Schopenhauer 3.2 A Free Man's Worship 230
Bertrand Russell 3.3 The Absurd 236 Thomas Nagel 3.4 Why Coming into
Existence Is Always a Harm 245 David Benatar 3.5 Secular Philosophy and the
Religious Temperament 262 Thomas Nagel Section IV Finding Meaning in a
World Without God: Optimistic Naturalism 275 Introduction 277 Erik J.
Wielenberg 4.1 The Human World 282 John Kekes 4.2 Time and Life's Meaning
296 Richard Taylor 4.3 The Meanings of Lives 304 Susan Wolf 4.4 Intrinsic
Value and Meaningful Life 319 Robert Audi 4.5 God and the Meaning of Life
335 Erik J. Wielenberg 4.6 The Varieties of Non-Religious Experience 353
Richard Norman 4.7 Emergent Religious Principles 367 Ursula Goodenough
Section V The Meaning of Life and the Way Life Ends: Death, Futility, and
Hope 371 Introduction 373 John Martin Fischer 5.1 A Confession 380 Leo
Tolstoy 5.2 Annihilation 388 Steven Luper-Foy 5.3 Why Immortality Is Not So
Bad 404 John Martin Fischer 5.4 The Immortality Requirement for Life's
Meaning 416 Thaddeus Metz 5.5 Human Extinction and the Value of Our Efforts
428 Brooke Alan Trisel 5.6 Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of
Narrative 445 John Martin Fischer 5.7 Death, Futility, and the Proleptic
Power of Narrative Ending 461 Joshua W. Seachris 5.8 Divine Hiddenness,
Death, and Meaning 481 Paul K. Moser
Acknowledgments xiii General Introduction 1 Joshua W. Seachris Section I
Understanding the Question of Life's Meaning 21 Introduction 23 Thaddeus
Metz 1.1 Why 29 Paul Edwards 1.2 Untangling the Questions 40 Garrett
Thomson 1.3 Questions about the Meaning of Life 48 R. W. Hepburn 1.4
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life 62 Robert Nozick 1.5 The Concept of a
Meaningful Life 79 Thaddeus Metz 1.6 Assessing Views of Life: A Subjective
Affair? 95 Arjan Markus Section II What Does God Have to Do with the
Meaning of Life? 113 Introduction 115 John Cottingham 2.1 Ecclesiastes 121
2.2 On Living in an Atomic Age 133 C. S. Lewis 2.3 Is the Existence of God
Relevant to the Meaning of Life? 138 Jeffrey Gordon 2.4 The Absurdity of
Life without God 153 William Lane Craig 2.5 Is Nature Enough? 173 John
Haught 2.6 Religion and Value: The Problem of Heteronomy 183 John
Cottingham 2.7 Could God's Purpose Be the Source of Life's Meaning? 200
Thaddeus Metz Section III The Loss of Meaning in a World Without God:
Pessimistic Naturalism 219 Introduction 221 Garrett Thomson 3.1 On the
Vanity of Existence 227 Arthur Schopenhauer 3.2 A Free Man's Worship 230
Bertrand Russell 3.3 The Absurd 236 Thomas Nagel 3.4 Why Coming into
Existence Is Always a Harm 245 David Benatar 3.5 Secular Philosophy and the
Religious Temperament 262 Thomas Nagel Section IV Finding Meaning in a
World Without God: Optimistic Naturalism 275 Introduction 277 Erik J.
Wielenberg 4.1 The Human World 282 John Kekes 4.2 Time and Life's Meaning
296 Richard Taylor 4.3 The Meanings of Lives 304 Susan Wolf 4.4 Intrinsic
Value and Meaningful Life 319 Robert Audi 4.5 God and the Meaning of Life
335 Erik J. Wielenberg 4.6 The Varieties of Non-Religious Experience 353
Richard Norman 4.7 Emergent Religious Principles 367 Ursula Goodenough
Section V The Meaning of Life and the Way Life Ends: Death, Futility, and
Hope 371 Introduction 373 John Martin Fischer 5.1 A Confession 380 Leo
Tolstoy 5.2 Annihilation 388 Steven Luper-Foy 5.3 Why Immortality Is Not So
Bad 404 John Martin Fischer 5.4 The Immortality Requirement for Life's
Meaning 416 Thaddeus Metz 5.5 Human Extinction and the Value of Our Efforts
428 Brooke Alan Trisel 5.6 Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of
Narrative 445 John Martin Fischer 5.7 Death, Futility, and the Proleptic
Power of Narrative Ending 461 Joshua W. Seachris 5.8 Divine Hiddenness,
Death, and Meaning 481 Paul K. Moser
Notes on Contributors viii Preface x Personal Acknowledgments xii
Acknowledgments xiii General Introduction 1 Joshua W. Seachris Section I
Understanding the Question of Life's Meaning 21 Introduction 23 Thaddeus
Metz 1.1 Why 29 Paul Edwards 1.2 Untangling the Questions 40 Garrett
Thomson 1.3 Questions about the Meaning of Life 48 R. W. Hepburn 1.4
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life 62 Robert Nozick 1.5 The Concept of a
Meaningful Life 79 Thaddeus Metz 1.6 Assessing Views of Life: A Subjective
Affair? 95 Arjan Markus Section II What Does God Have to Do with the
Meaning of Life? 113 Introduction 115 John Cottingham 2.1 Ecclesiastes 121
2.2 On Living in an Atomic Age 133 C. S. Lewis 2.3 Is the Existence of God
Relevant to the Meaning of Life? 138 Jeffrey Gordon 2.4 The Absurdity of
Life without God 153 William Lane Craig 2.5 Is Nature Enough? 173 John
Haught 2.6 Religion and Value: The Problem of Heteronomy 183 John
Cottingham 2.7 Could God's Purpose Be the Source of Life's Meaning? 200
Thaddeus Metz Section III The Loss of Meaning in a World Without God:
Pessimistic Naturalism 219 Introduction 221 Garrett Thomson 3.1 On the
Vanity of Existence 227 Arthur Schopenhauer 3.2 A Free Man's Worship 230
Bertrand Russell 3.3 The Absurd 236 Thomas Nagel 3.4 Why Coming into
Existence Is Always a Harm 245 David Benatar 3.5 Secular Philosophy and the
Religious Temperament 262 Thomas Nagel Section IV Finding Meaning in a
World Without God: Optimistic Naturalism 275 Introduction 277 Erik J.
Wielenberg 4.1 The Human World 282 John Kekes 4.2 Time and Life's Meaning
296 Richard Taylor 4.3 The Meanings of Lives 304 Susan Wolf 4.4 Intrinsic
Value and Meaningful Life 319 Robert Audi 4.5 God and the Meaning of Life
335 Erik J. Wielenberg 4.6 The Varieties of Non-Religious Experience 353
Richard Norman 4.7 Emergent Religious Principles 367 Ursula Goodenough
Section V The Meaning of Life and the Way Life Ends: Death, Futility, and
Hope 371 Introduction 373 John Martin Fischer 5.1 A Confession 380 Leo
Tolstoy 5.2 Annihilation 388 Steven Luper-Foy 5.3 Why Immortality Is Not So
Bad 404 John Martin Fischer 5.4 The Immortality Requirement for Life's
Meaning 416 Thaddeus Metz 5.5 Human Extinction and the Value of Our Efforts
428 Brooke Alan Trisel 5.6 Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of
Narrative 445 John Martin Fischer 5.7 Death, Futility, and the Proleptic
Power of Narrative Ending 461 Joshua W. Seachris 5.8 Divine Hiddenness,
Death, and Meaning 481 Paul K. Moser
Acknowledgments xiii General Introduction 1 Joshua W. Seachris Section I
Understanding the Question of Life's Meaning 21 Introduction 23 Thaddeus
Metz 1.1 Why 29 Paul Edwards 1.2 Untangling the Questions 40 Garrett
Thomson 1.3 Questions about the Meaning of Life 48 R. W. Hepburn 1.4
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life 62 Robert Nozick 1.5 The Concept of a
Meaningful Life 79 Thaddeus Metz 1.6 Assessing Views of Life: A Subjective
Affair? 95 Arjan Markus Section II What Does God Have to Do with the
Meaning of Life? 113 Introduction 115 John Cottingham 2.1 Ecclesiastes 121
2.2 On Living in an Atomic Age 133 C. S. Lewis 2.3 Is the Existence of God
Relevant to the Meaning of Life? 138 Jeffrey Gordon 2.4 The Absurdity of
Life without God 153 William Lane Craig 2.5 Is Nature Enough? 173 John
Haught 2.6 Religion and Value: The Problem of Heteronomy 183 John
Cottingham 2.7 Could God's Purpose Be the Source of Life's Meaning? 200
Thaddeus Metz Section III The Loss of Meaning in a World Without God:
Pessimistic Naturalism 219 Introduction 221 Garrett Thomson 3.1 On the
Vanity of Existence 227 Arthur Schopenhauer 3.2 A Free Man's Worship 230
Bertrand Russell 3.3 The Absurd 236 Thomas Nagel 3.4 Why Coming into
Existence Is Always a Harm 245 David Benatar 3.5 Secular Philosophy and the
Religious Temperament 262 Thomas Nagel Section IV Finding Meaning in a
World Without God: Optimistic Naturalism 275 Introduction 277 Erik J.
Wielenberg 4.1 The Human World 282 John Kekes 4.2 Time and Life's Meaning
296 Richard Taylor 4.3 The Meanings of Lives 304 Susan Wolf 4.4 Intrinsic
Value and Meaningful Life 319 Robert Audi 4.5 God and the Meaning of Life
335 Erik J. Wielenberg 4.6 The Varieties of Non-Religious Experience 353
Richard Norman 4.7 Emergent Religious Principles 367 Ursula Goodenough
Section V The Meaning of Life and the Way Life Ends: Death, Futility, and
Hope 371 Introduction 373 John Martin Fischer 5.1 A Confession 380 Leo
Tolstoy 5.2 Annihilation 388 Steven Luper-Foy 5.3 Why Immortality Is Not So
Bad 404 John Martin Fischer 5.4 The Immortality Requirement for Life's
Meaning 416 Thaddeus Metz 5.5 Human Extinction and the Value of Our Efforts
428 Brooke Alan Trisel 5.6 Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of
Narrative 445 John Martin Fischer 5.7 Death, Futility, and the Proleptic
Power of Narrative Ending 461 Joshua W. Seachris 5.8 Divine Hiddenness,
Death, and Meaning 481 Paul K. Moser