The Meaning of Life
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The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives is the first book to summarize the writings of the important contemporary theologians, philosophers, and scientists on the question of the meaning of life. In addition the book deals with the relevance of death for the question as well the…
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This book provides short summaries of the views of about one hundred philosophers of the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries.
Only one earlier philosopher is included, “the most prominent pessimist of the entire western philosophical tradition,” Arthur Schopenhauer.
One of the interesting features of the book – partly because it has rarely been attempted – is a taxonomy of the different answers that have been given to the question.
From Stephen's list on philosophy and the meaning of life.
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