Iddo Landau (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Haif

Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is life meaningless? Does life have enough meaning to make it feel worthwhile? If we think our lives lack meaning, what can we do about it? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World answers these and other difficult questions, while confronting head-on famous, recurrent theories that insist on life's meaninglessness. Landau shows us how to single out what is meaningful, explains why we sometimes fail to recognize meaning, and suggests ways in which we canresensitize ourselves to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780190657666
• ISBN-10: 0190657669
• Artikelnr.: 47863894

Autorenporträt

Iddo Landau is Professor of Philosophy at Haifa University, Israel. He has published extensively on the meaning of life.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Implications
Chapter Three: Against Perfectionism
Chapter Four: Anticipations of Non-Perfectionism
Chapter Five: Death and Annihilation (1)
Chapter Six: Death and Annihilation (2)
Chapter Seven: Life in the Context of the Whole Universe
Chapter Eight: Determinism and Contingency
Chapter Nine: Skepticism and Relativism
Chapter Ten: The Goal of Life
Chapter Eleven: The Paradox of the End
Chapter Twelve: Suffering
Chapter Thirteen: Human Evil
Chapter Fourteen: Why We Are Blind to Goodness
Chapter Fifteen: Identifying (1)
Chapter Sixteen: Identifying (2)
Chapter Seventeen: Recognizing
Chapter Eighteen: Conclusion (1)
Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion (2)