Quest for Meaning

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Most discussions of medical and practical ethics have avoided direct confrontation with the query: what is the value and meaning of human life? The book addresses these issues directly, examining the variety of philosophical questions in the area, their meaningfulness and the paradoxes suggested by answers to those questions. Each chapter is an attempt to identify and correct the biases and confusions in such discussions. Specific areas considered are: relations to animals; the status of the human species; utilitarian and non-utilitarian arguments; religious answers to the question "why is life sacred and worthwhile?"; the meaning of death; the influence of science.

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Utgivningsdatum1988-02-11
Mått140 x 215 x 13 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9780631153337

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Acknowledgements viii Introduction ixCHAPTER ONE Suffering 11. We feel pain, not painlessness' 22. The pendulum between pain and boredom' 53. Are some lives worse than others? 84. The value of suffering 115. Conclusion 12CHAPTER Two Purpose 151 The question 'Why?: means and ends 162 "The end had ceased to charm' 193 The Ozymandias perspective 214 The endless cycle of generation 245 To travel and to arrive 266 Is life absurd? 297 Nature's remedy 328 The life of purpose and its alternatives 34CHAPTER THREE God 421 Insignificant man 422 God's purpose and the problem of evil 473 The life hereafter 524 Meaning and the religious calendar 54CHAPTER FOUR Death 571 Is death the end? 582 The consolation of nature 623 When death is present 664 Death and other forms of non-existence 675 Death and the goodness of life 726 Death and the desire for life 787 Conclusion: the meaning of death 82CHAPTER FIVE The value of life 861 The 'sanctity' of life 862 The value of human and other existence 94CHAPTER SIX Self-realization 105CHAPTER SEVEN Nature 1091 The Garden of Eden 1092 Artificial men and factitious passions' 1113 Before and after language 1154 'Must societies be abolished?' 1205 The value of nature 121CHAPTER EIGHT Homo sapiens 1271 The 'political animal' 1272 The rational life 130CHAPTER NINE Happiness and desire 1651. Desire and satisfaction 1652. Actual and potential desires 1683 Desire and the 'Greatest Happiness Principle' 1734 Happiness and truth 1775 Happiness and duty 180CHAPTER TEN Who am I? 1891 The individual and society 1892 'Man makes himself 1933 Freedom and reason 1974 Being true to oneself 2035 The limits of reason 2056 Homo Ludens 208Index 218