Finding meaning in an imperfect world / Iddo Landau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landau, Iddo, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 297 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. After all, few of us devote our lives fully to pursuits that are indisputably meaningful. Even if we are teachers, doctors, or social justice advocates, and the positive effects of our labor are daily evident, there are moments in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. But even still, Iddo Landau argues, our lives are in fact meaningful- we've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is.

Contents:

Introduction

Implications

Against perfectionism

Anticipations of nonperfectionism

Death and Annihilation I

Death and Annihilation II

Life in the context of the whole universe

Determinism and contingency

Skepticism and relativism

The goal of life

The paradox of the end

Suffering

Human Evil

Why we are blind to goodness

Identifying I

Identifying II

Recognizing

Conclusion I

Conclusion II.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 6, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-065768-5

0-19-065769-3

0-19-065767-7