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The Meaning of Life is the preeminent anthology on the topic. Featuring twenty-five insightful selections by prominent philosophers, it serves as an ideal core text for courses on the meaning of life and introduction to philosophy courses where the topic is emphasized. In Part I the articles defend the view that without faith in God, life has no meaning or purpose. In Part II the selections oppose this claim, defending instead a nontheistic, humanisticalternative-that life can have meaning even in the absence of theistic commitment. In Part III the readings address whether the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningful. A new Part IV on the end of life raises issues about how understanding death affects our understanding of the meaning oflife.
Contents
*=New to this EditionPreface to the Fourth Edition: Preface to the Third Edition: Preface to the Second Edition: Introduction. The Question of the Meaning of Life, E. D. KlemkePART ONE. THE THEISTIC ANSWER1. Leo Tolstoy: My Confession2. Philip L. Quinn: The Meaning of Life According to Christianity3. Emil L. Fackenheim: Judaism and the Meaning of Life* 4. Christopher W. Gowans: The Buddha's Message* 5. Henry Rosemont, Jr.: The Confucian WayPART TWO. THE NONTHEISTIC ALTERNATIVE6. Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Sufferings of the World7. Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship8. Moritz Schlick: On the Meaning of Life9. Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus10. Kurt Baier: The Meaning of Life11. Paul Edwards: The Meaning and Value of Life12. Richard Taylor: The Meaning of Life13. Thomas Nagel: The Absurd14. Joel Feinberg: Absurd Self-Fulfillment15. E. D. Klemke: Living Without Appeal: An Affirmative Philosophy of LifePART THREE. QUESTIONING THE QUESTION16. John Wisdom: The Meanings of the Questions of Life17. Robert Nozick: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life18. Susan Wolf: Meaning in Life* 19. Christine Vitrano: Meaningful Lives* 20. Thomas Nagel: Death* 21. Bernard Williams: The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality* 22. John Martin Fischer: Why Immortality Is Not So Bad* 23. Samuel Scheffler: The Afterlife* 24. Harry G. Frankfurt: How the Afterlife Matters* 25. Susan Wolf: The Significance of DoomsdayAbout the Contributors:
