The meaning of life and the great philosophers / edited by Stephen Leach and James Tartaglia.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Leach, Stephen D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Life.
• Meaning (Philosophy).
• Philosophers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This volume addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to contemporary discussion around the meaning of life. This edited collection includes over thirty chapters each focusing major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, and imaginatively engages with the topic from their perspective.

Contents:

• chapter 1 Confucius and the meaning of life / Richard Kim Joshua W. Seachris
• chapter 2 The Buddha and the meaning of life / Mark Siderits
• chapter 3 Vyāsa and the meaning of life / Arindam Chakrabarti
• chapter 4 Socrates and the meaning of life / A.C. Grayling
• chapter 5 Plato and the meaning of life / David Skrbina
• chapter 6 Diogenes and the meaning of life / Will Desmond
• chapter 7 Zhuangzi and the meaning of life / David E. Cooper
• chapter 8 Aristotle on the meaning of life / Monte Ransome Johnson
• chapter 9 Epicurus and the meaning of life / Catherine Wilson
• chapter 10 Koheleth and the meaning of life / Thaddeus Metz
• chapter 11 Epictetus and the meaning of life / A.A. Long
• chapter 12 Sextus Empiricus and the meaning of life / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
• chapter 13 Avicenna and the meaning of life / Nader El-Bizri
• chapter 14 Maimonides and the meaning of life / Alfred L. Ivry
• chapter 15 Aquinas and the meaning of life / Edward Feser
• chapter 16 Montaigne and the meaning of life / Stephen Leach
• chapter 17 Descartes and the meaning of life / John Cottingham
• chapter 18 Spinoza and the meaning of life / Genevieve Lloyd
• chapter 19 Kant and the meaning of life / Terry F. Godlove
• chapter 20 Schopenhauer and the meaning of life / Robert Wicks
• chapter 21 Kierkegaard and the meaning of life / Mark Bernier
• chapter 22 Marx and the meaning of life / Amy E. Wendling
• chapter 23 Mill and the meaning of life / Frans Svensson
• chapter 24 Nietzsche and the meaning of life / Raymond Angelo Belliotti
• chapter 25 Ortega and the meaning of life / Pedro Blas González
• chapter 26 Wittgenstein and the meaning of life / Reza Hosseini
• chapter 27 Heidegger and the meaning of life / Wendell O’Brien
• chapter 28 Sartre and the meaning of life / Joseph S. Catalano
• chapter 29 Beauvoir and the meaning of life / Jonathan Webber
• chapter 30 Weil and the meaning of life / Lissa McCullough
• chapter 31 Ayer and the meaning of life / James Tartaglia
• chapter 32 Camus and the meaning of life / William McBride
• chapter 33 Murdoch and the meaning of life / Bridget Clarke
• chapter 34 Fanon and the meaning of life / Samuel Imbo
• chapter 35 Rorty and the meaning of life / Alan Malachowski
• chapter Postscript
• The blue flower.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-315-38593-7
• 1-315-38592-9
• 1-315-38594-5

OCLC:

1031315512