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On meaning in life /
The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and objectivist answers, confro...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston ; Berlin :
Walter De Gruyter,
2013.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction / Himmelmann, Beatrix
- Happiness and the Meaning of Life / Horn, Christoph
- Meaningful but Immoral Lives? / Louden, Robert B.
- Individual, Society, and Teleology: An Aristotelian Conception of Meaning in Life / Fossheim, Hallvard J.
- Meaning and Narratives / Kekes, John
- Contingency and the Quest for Meaning / Himmelmann, Beatrix
- Meaningfulness, Eternity and Theism / Cottingham, John
- Meaning of Life: Peter Wessel Zapffe on the Human Condition / Fremstedal, Roe
- Touched By the Universe / Andersson, Dag T.
- Perfectionism and Non-Perfectionism in Camus's Myth of Sisyphus / Landau, Iddo
- Contributors
- Index.