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What is the meaning of human life? / Raymond Angelo Belliotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belliotti, Raymond A., 1948- author.
- Series:
- Value Inquiry Book Series ; 109.
- Value Inquiry Book Series ; 109
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human beings--Age determination.
- Human beings.
- Immortality--Christianity.
- Immortality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book examines core concerns of human life. What is the relationship between a meaningful life and theism? Why are some human beings radically adrift, without radical foundations, and struggling with hopelessness? Is the cosmos meaningless? Is human life akin to the ancient Myth of Sisyphus? What is the role of struggle and suffering in creating meaning? How do we discover or create value? Is happiness overrated as a goal of life? How, if at all, can we learn to die meaningfully?.
- Contents:
- Foreword by Jan Narveson
- Preface
- ONE Meaning and Theism
- TWO Nihilism, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche
- THREE The Myth of Sisyphus
- FOUR The Meaning of Life
- FIVE Value
- SIX Why Happiness is Overrated
- SEVEN Death
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-49599-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004495999 DOI
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