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Addresses the query: what is the value and meaning of human life? The author examines the variety of philosophical questions in the area, their meaningfulness and the paradoxes suggested by answers to those questions.

Table of Contents
1. Making sense of the questions ; 2. The Meaning of death ; 3. Religious and scientific perspectives ; 4. The Ozymandias perspective; Inevitable decay ; 5. "Meaning of Life" and meaningful lives ; 6. Being and consciousness, in the abstract ; 7. The good life ; 8. Animals ; 9. Comparison of animals with people ; 10. Utilitarianism on animals ; 11. Naturalist arguments ; 12. Non-utilitarian arguments ; 13. Special status arguments.

The Quest for Meaning

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 11/02/1988
      ISBN13: 9780631153337, 978-0631153337
      ISBN10: 0631153330
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      Ethics and moral philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Addresses the query: what is the value and meaning of human life? The author examines the variety of philosophical questions in the area, their meaningfulness and the paradoxes suggested by answers to those questions.

      Table of Contents
      1. Making sense of the questions ; 2. The Meaning of death ; 3. Religious and scientific perspectives ; 4. The Ozymandias perspective; Inevitable decay ; 5. "Meaning of Life" and meaningful lives ; 6. Being and consciousness, in the abstract ; 7. The good life ; 8. Animals ; 9. Comparison of animals with people ; 10. Utilitarianism on animals ; 11. Naturalist arguments ; 12. Non-utilitarian arguments ; 13. Special status arguments.

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