The meaning of life: a reader Fourth Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190674202
• ISBN-13: 9780190674205
• Author: E.D. Klemke, Steven M. Cahn

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.

Table contents:

Part One: The Theistic Answer
Chapter 1: Leo Tolstoy: My Confession
Chapter 2: Philip L. Quinn: The Meaning of Life According to Christianity
Chapter 3: Emil L. Fackenheim: Judaism and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 4: Christopher W. Gowans: The Buddha’s Message
Chapter 5: Henry Rosemont, Jr.: The Confucian Way
Part Two: The Nontheistic Alternative
Chapter 6: Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World
Chapter 7: Bertrand Russell: A Free Man’s Worship
Chapter 8: Moritz Schlick: On the Meaning of Life
Chapter 9: Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
Chapter 10: Kurt Baier: The Meaning of Life
Chapter 11: Paul Edwards: The Meaning and Value of Life
Chapter 12: Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life
Chapter 13: Thomas Nagel: The Absurd
Chapter 14: Joel Feinberg: Absurd Self-Fulfillment
Chapter 15: E. D. Klemke: Living Without Appeal: An Affirmative Philosophy of Life
Part Three: Questioning the Question
Chapter 16: John Wisdom: The Meanings of the Questions of Life
Chapter 17: Robert Nozick: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Chapter 18: Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life
Chapter 19: Christine Vitrano: Meaningful Lives
Part Four: The End of Life
Chapter 20: Thomas Nagel: Death
Chapter 21: Bernard Williams: The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality
Chapter 22: John Martin Fischer: Why Immortality Is Not So Bad
Chapter 23: Samuel Scheffler: The Afterlife
Chapter 24: Harry G. Frankfurt: How the Afterlife Matters
Chapter 25: Susan Wolf: The Significance of Doomsday

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