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The meaning of life : a reader
- Title
- The meaning of life : a reader / edited by E.D. Klemke, Steven M. Cahn.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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- Description
- x, 260 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Featuring twenty-five insightful selections by prominent philosophers, literary figures, and religious thinkers, The Meaning of Life: A Reader, Fourth Edition, 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. The fourth edition adds selections reflecting Buddhist and Confucian thought and also features a new Part IV on the end of life, raising issues about how our perspectives on death affect our understanding of the meaning of life." - publisher.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The question of the meaning of life / E.D. Klemke -- My confession / Leo Tolstoy -- The meaning of life according to Christianity / Philip L. Quinn -- Judaism and the meaning of life / Emil L. Fackenheim -- The Buddha’s message / Christopher W. Gowans -- The Confucian way / Henry Rosemont Jr. -- On the sufferings of the world / Arthur Schopenhauer -- A free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- On the meaning of life / Moritz Schlick -- The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- The meaning of life / Kurt Baier -- The meaning and value of life / Paul Edwards -- The meaning of life / Richard Taylor -- The absurd / Thomas Nagel -- Absurd self-fulfillment / Joel Feinberg -- Living without appeal: an affirmative philosophy of life / E.D. Klemke -- The meanings of the questions of life / John Wisdom -- Philosophy and the meaning of life / Robert Nozick -- Meaning in life / Susan Wolf -- Meaningful lives / Christine Vitrano -- Death / Thomas Nagel -- The Makropulos case: reflections on the tedium of immortality / Bernard Williams -- Why immortality is not so bad / John Martin Fischer -- The afterlife / Samuel Scheffler -- How the afterlife matters / Harry G. Frankfurt -- The significance of doomsday / Susan Wolf.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-8138
- ISBN
- 9780190674199
- 0190674199
- LCCN
- 2017001346
- 40028338812
- OCLC
- 983786009
- Title
- The meaning of life : a reader / edited by E.D. Klemke, Steven M. Cahn.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Edition
- Fourth edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Klemke, E. D. (Elmer Daniel), 1926-2000, editor.Cahn, Steven M., editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028338812
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-8138