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God and the Meanings of Life - What God Could and Couldn't Do to Make Our Lives More Meaningful (Hardcover)
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God and the Meanings of Life - What God Could and Couldn't Do to Make Our Lives More Meaningful (Hardcover)
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Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful
if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the
traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of
self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the
meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all
meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life
could only be meaningful if there is a God. God and the Meanings of
Life is interested in exploring the truth in both these schools of
thought, seeking to discover what God could and couldn't do to make
life meaningful (as well as what he would and wouldn't do). Mawson
espouses a version of the 'amalgam' or 'pluralism' thesis about the
issue of life's meaning - in essence, that there are a number of
different legitimate meanings of 'meaning' (and indeed 'life') in
the question of life's meaning. According to Mawson, God, were he
to exist, would help make life meaningful in some of these senses
and hinder in some others. He argues that whilst there could be
meaning in a Godless universe, there could be other sorts of
meaning in a Godly one and that these would be deeper.
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