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.

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ISBN:

1-315-38593-7

1-315-38592-9

1-315-38594-5

OCLC:

1031315512