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The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of
meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in
almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these
movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our
relation to what is "greater" than us, and our encounters with
suffering and with death, are also discussed (even if in a
different manner) in the philosophy of meaning in life. However,
only recently has the topic received elaborate discussion within
analytic philosophy, and become a thriving field of research. This
volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in their
respective subfields on a wide array of subjects in meaning in life
research. The chapters are organized into six sections. Section I
focuses on ways of conceptualizing life's meaning. It discusses,
among other issues, whether meaning in life should be understood
objectively or subjectively, the relation between meaningfulness
and importance, and whether meaningful lives should be understood
narratively. Section II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics,
presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on
life's meaning, inquires whether determinism must render life
meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal
identity, and meaning in life. Section III considers life's meaning
from both atheist and theist perspectives, and examines the
relation between meaningfulness, mysticism and transcendence.
Section IV, Ethics and Meaning in Life, examines (among other
issues) whether meaningful lives must be moral, how important
forgiveness is for meaning, the implications of life's
meaningfulness or meaninglessness for procreation ethics, and
whether animals can have meaningful lives. Section V compares
philosophical and psychological research on life's meaning,
explores the experience of meaningfulness, and discusses the
relation between meaningfulness and desire, love, and gratitude.
Finally, section VI, Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects,
elaborates on meaning in life and topics such as suicide,
suffering, education, optimism and pessimism. Many of the chapters
deal with topics that have never before been discussed in the
literature. This handbook presents ground-breaking work within a
rapidly developing field and offers the first published scholarly
companion to the philosophical study if meaning in life.
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