Life Is Short : : An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful / / Dean Rickles.
Why life’s shortness—more than anything else—is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death wo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) :; 2 b/w illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Shortness of Life, Redux
- 2. Who Wants to Live Forever?
- 3. People and Purpose
- 4. Diseases of Time
- 5. Project Me
- 6. The Provisional Life
- 7. Bulletproofing
- 8. The Meaning of (Life) Death
- Notes
- Index