The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leach, Stephen; Tartaglia, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to contemporary discussion around the meaning of life. This edited collection includes over thirty chapters each focusing major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, and imaginatively engages with the topic from their perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315385921
• Artikelnr.: 56835968

Autorenporträt

Stephen Leach is Honorary Senior Fellow at Keele University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of History: Collingwood's Analysis of Historical Explanation (2009). James Tartaglia is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1 Confucius, Richard Kim and Joshua W. Seachris
Chapter 2 The Buddha, Mark Siderits
Chapter 3 Vya-Sa, Arindam Chakrabarti
Chapter 4 Socrates, A.C. Grayling
Chapter 5 Plato, David Skrbina
Chapter 6 Diogenes, Will Desmond
Chapter 7 Zhuangzi, David E. Cooper
Chapter 8 Aristotle, Monte Ransome Johnson
Chapter 9 Epicurus, Catherine Wilson
Chapter 10 Koheleth, Thaddeus Metz
Chapter 11 Epictetus, A.A. Long
Chapter 12 Sextus Empiricus, Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
Chapter 13 Avicenna, Nader El-Bizri
Chapter 14 Maimonides, Alfred L. Ivry
Chapter 15 Aquinas, Edward Feser
Chapter 16 Montaigne, Stephen Leach
Chapter 17 Descartes, John Cottingham
Chapter 18 Spinoza, Genevieve Lloyd
Chapter 19 Kant, Terry F. Godlove
Chapter 20 Schopenhauer, Robert Wicks
Chapter 21 Kierkegaard, Mark Bernier
Chapter 22 Marx, Amy E. Wendling
Chapter 23 Mill, Frans Svensson
Chapter 24 Nietzsche, Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Chapter 25 Ortega, Pedro Blas González
Chapter 26 Wittgenstein, Reza Hosseini
Chapter 27 Heidegger, Wendell O'Brien
Chapter 28 Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano
Chapter 29 Beauvoir, Jonathan Webber
Chapter 30 Weil, Lissa Mccullough
Chapter 31 Ayer, James Tartaglia
Chapter 32 Camus, William McBride
Chapter 33 Murdoch, Bridget Clarke
Chapter 34 Fanon, Samuel Imbo
Chapter 35 Rorty, Alan Malachowski
Postscript: The blue flower
Bibliography
Index