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Meaning in life : an analytic study / Thaddeus Metz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 269 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199599319
  • 9780199599318
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 113.8 23
LOC classification:
  • BD431
Contents:
1. Introduction: The Meaning of life -- Part 1. Meaning as One Part of a Good Life : -- 2. The Concept of Meaning -- 3. The Bearer of Meaning -- 4. The Value of Meaning -- Part 2. Supernaturalist Theories of Meaning in Life : -- 5. Purpose Theory I: Questioning Motivations -- 6. Purpose Theory II: Advancing Objections -- 7. Non-Purposive Supernaturalism -- 8. Rejecting Supernaturalism -- Part 3. Naturalist Theories of Meaning in Life : -- 9. Subjectivism -- 10. Objectivism I: Being Attracted, Meriting Attraction, and Promoting Consequences -- 11. Objectivism II: Non-Consequentialism -- 12. Objectivism III: The Fundamentality Theory -- 13. Conclusion: the fine game of nil.
Summary: "What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda."--Publisher's website.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 113.8 MET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A479711B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The Meaning of life -- Part 1. Meaning as One Part of a Good Life : -- 2. The Concept of Meaning -- 3. The Bearer of Meaning -- 4. The Value of Meaning -- Part 2. Supernaturalist Theories of Meaning in Life : -- 5. Purpose Theory I: Questioning Motivations -- 6. Purpose Theory II: Advancing Objections -- 7. Non-Purposive Supernaturalism -- 8. Rejecting Supernaturalism -- Part 3. Naturalist Theories of Meaning in Life : -- 9. Subjectivism -- 10. Objectivism I: Being Attracted, Meriting Attraction, and Promoting Consequences -- 11. Objectivism II: Non-Consequentialism -- 12. Objectivism III: The Fundamentality Theory -- 13. Conclusion: the fine game of nil.

"What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda."--Publisher's website.

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