Description
Book SynopsisLife and Meaning surveys a variety of Philosophical answers to the question, a What makes life worth living?a By collecting readings from a wide range of philosophical history it gives the various perspectives on the value and meaning of life.
Table of ContentsSources.
Introduction.
Part I: Has Life a Meaning?.
1. Vanity of Vanities: Ecclesiastes.
2. My Confession: Leo Tolstoy.
3. The Purpose of Man's Existence: Kurt Baier.
4. Has the Question about the Meaning of Life any Meaning? Rudolf Wohlgennant.
5. The Meaning of Life: Richard Taylor.
6. The Absurd: Thomas Nagel.
7. On the Meaning of Life: Moritz Schlick.
8. What is There in Horse Racing? John Wisdom.
Part II: Death, Suffering and the Value of Life:.
9. We Have Nothing to Fear in Death: Lucretius.
10. Death: Mary Mothersill.
11. Why We Should not be Biased towards the Future: Derek Parfit.
12. The Vanity and Suffering of Life: Arthur Schpenhauer.
13. Murder and a World without Human Beings: G. E. Moore.
14. The Sanctity of Life: Jonathan Glover.
15. What is Wrong with Killing People? R. E. Ewin.
16. A Covenant for the Ark? Peter Singer.
Part III: Nature and Society:.
17. The Tree of Knowledge: Genesis.
18. The Origin of Inequality: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
19. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity, and Misery: Thomas Hobbes.
20. Man and the State: Aristotle.
21. Nature: John Stuart Mill.
Part IV: Pleasure, Happiness and Self-Realization:.
22. Pleasure and Desire: Plato.
23. The Difference of Quality I Pleasures and of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible: John Stuart Mill.
24. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick.
25. How Should a Man Live? Aristotle.
26. My Station and its Duties: F. H. Bradley.
27. Freedom and Bad Faith: Jean-Paul Sartre.
28. Homo Ludens: J. Huizinga.
29. Moral Tradition: John Keres.
Index.
