On meaning in life / edited by Beatrix Himmelmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Himmelmann, Beatrix, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, confronting concepts of meaning with notions of happiness and morality, and considering the idea of human life's meaning both sub specie aeternitatis and in view of the world's finitude and contingency. The volume assembles contributions from leading scholars in the field, including John Cottingham, John Kekes, Iddo Landau, Dag T. Andersson, Robert B. Louden, Christoph Horn, and Bernard Reginster.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 24, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110324242

3110324245

OCLC:

862370423