Philosophy in a Meaningless Life A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality / James Tartaglia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tartaglia, James, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence.

Contents:

1 The Meaninglessness of Life 21

1 The truth of nihilism 21

2 Attunements to nihilism: Anxiety and boredom 25

3 Heidegger's rejection of nihilism 28

4 The priority of boredom 31

5 Existence and nihilism 34

6 Nietzsche's nihilism 36

2 A Survey of Misguided Coping Strategies: Does Nihilism Ruin Your Life? 41

1 The consequences of nihilism 41

2 Absurdity 44

3 Transcendence 48

4 Humanism 53

5 Relativism 56

3 On What Philosophy Is 61

1 The persistence of philosophical questions 61

2 What is philosophy? 63

3 Enframement and ontology 69

4 Against philosophy-scepticism 74

5 Meno's paradox 78

4 The Problem of Consciousness 83

1 Consciousness and objective thought 83

2 Indirectness and self-awareness 86

3 Consciousness as the brain: Revisionism 89

4 Consciousness as the brain: From identification to revisionism 95

5 Consciousness: The Transcendent Hypothesis 101

1 Consciousness and transcendence 101

2 The problem in a dream 103

3 The transcendent hypothesis I: Two traditional themes 105

4 The transcendent hypothesis II: Introspection and perception 108

5 The transcendent hypothesis III: Appearance and reality 114

6 The transcendent hypothesis IV: Idealism and realism 117

7 Is it true? 120

6 Time 123

1 Time in and out of the framework 123

2 Time and objective thought 126

3 The block theory 131

4 Time and transcendence 135

5 Respite without consolation 144

7 Universals 147

1 Universals and the meaning of life 147

2 Universals, ontology and mind 152

3 Universals and the transcendent hypothesis 156

4 Representation and the objective world 163

5 Plato's nascent nihilism 167

8 Nihilism, Transcendence and Philosophy 169

1 Living with nihilism 169

2 The role of philosophy 176

3 Spirituality and the framework online 182.

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ISBN:

9781350017511