On Meaning in Life / / Beatrix Himmelmann.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 p.)
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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