TY  - BOOK
AU  - Himmelmann,Beatrix
TI  - On Meaning in Life
SN  - 1306092086
AV  - BD431 
U1  - 128 23
PY  - 2013///
PB  - de Gruyter
KW  - Life
KW  - Meaning (Philosophy)
KW  - Signification (Philosophie)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Movements
KW  - Humanism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction; Himmelmann, Beatrix --; Happiness and the Meaning of Life; Horn, Christoph --; Meaningful but Immoral Lives?; Louden, Robert B. --; Individual, Society, and Teleology: An Aristotelian Conception of Meaning in Life; Fossheim, Hallvard J. --; Meaning and Narratives; Kekes, John --; Contingency and the Quest for Meaning; Himmelmann, Beatrix --; Meaningfulness, Eternity and Theism; Cottingham, John --; Meaning of Life: Peter Wessel Zapffe on the Human Condition; Fremstedal, Roe --; Touched By the Universe; Andersson, Dag T. --; Perfectionism and Non-Perfectionism in Camus's Myth of Sisyphus; Landau, Iddo --; Contributors --; Index
N2  - The question of meaning in life is as relevant and central as ever - in spite of all attempts at declaring it senseless. It does not disappear. But how should we deal with this question today? The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and objectivist answers, confronting concepts of meaning with notions of happiness and morality, and considering the idea of human life's meaning both sub specie aeternitatis and in view of the world's finitude and contingency. The volume assembles contributions from leading scholars in the field
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