This book is open access and available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life provides an account of the nature
of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of
life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this
question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a
quintessentially human concern to which other traditional
philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be
reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the
typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James
Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to
avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process
have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence.
Rejecting all of this, Tartaglia embraces nihilism ('we are here
with nothing to do'), and uses transcendence both to provide a new
solution to the problem of consciousness, and to explain away
perplexities about time and universals. He concludes that with more
self-awareness, philosophy can attain higher status within a
culture increasingly in need of it.
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