Meaning in Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 December 2015
- ISBN 9780198748014
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 231x157x15 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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. He proceeds by examining what, if anything, all the conditions that make a life meaningful have in common. The outcome of this process is a philosophical theory of meaning in life. He starts by evaluating existing theories in terms of the classic triad of the good, the true, and the beautiful. He considers whether meaning in life might be about such principles as fulfilling God's purpose, obtaining reward in an afterlife for having been virtuous, being attracted to what merits attraction, leaving the world a better place, connecting to organic unity, or transcending oneself by connecting to what is extensive. He argues that no extant principle satisfactorily accounts for the three-fold significance of morality, enquiry, and creativity, and that the most promising theory is a fresh one according to which meaning in life is a matter of intelligence contoured toward fundamental conditions of human existence.
Meaning in Life has many good features. It is comprehensive, meticulous, and argumentative. Metz seems to have read everything anyone has ever written about the topic and has a thoughtful opinion on every claim. There is no volume that would work better as a textbook for a class on meaningfulness.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: The Meaning of life
Part 1: Meaning as One Part of a Good Life
The Concept of Meaning
The Bearer of Meaning
The Value of Meaning
Part 2: Supernaturalist Theories of Meaning in Life
Purpose Theory I: Questioning Motivations
Purpose Theory II: Advancing Objections
Non-Purposive Supernaturalism
Rejecting Supernaturalism
Part 3: Naturalist Theories of Meaning in Life
Subjectivism
Objectivism I: Being Attracted, Meriting Attraction, and Promoting Consequences
Objectivism II: Non-Consequentialism
Objectivism III: The Fundamentality Theory
Conclusion: the fine game of nil
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index
