What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz argues that no existing theory does full justice to the key requirements of morality, enquiry, and creativity. He offers a new answer to the question: meaning in life is a matter of intelligence contoured toward fundamental conditions of human existence.
What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz argues that no existing theory does full justice to the key requirements of morality, enquiry, and creativity. He offers a new answer to the question: meaning in life is a matter of intelligence contoured toward fundamental conditions of human existence.
Thaddeus Metz is Humanities Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of around one hundred professional journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries, on a variety of topics in ethical, political, and legal philosophy.
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Preface 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 Epilogue Works Cited Index
Preface 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 Epilogue Works Cited Index
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