The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

Stephen Leach, James Tartaglia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22095-9 (ISBN)

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This volume addresses the question of how the great philosophers of the past might have reacted to contemporary discussion around the meaning of life. This edited collection includes over thirty chapters each focusing major philosophical figure from the history of philosophy, and imaginatively engages with the topic from their perspective.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life. This edited collection includes thirty-five chapters which each focus on a major philosophical figure, from Confucius to Rorty, and that imaginatively engage with the topic from their perspective. This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’.

Written by leading experts in the field, such as A.C. Grayling, Thaddeus Metz and John Cottingham, this unique and engaging book explores the relevance of the history of philosophy to contemporary debates. It will prove essential reading for students and scholars studying the history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, metaphysics or comparative philosophy.

Stephen Leach is Honorary Senior Fellow at Keele University, UK. He is the author of The Foundations of History: Collingwood's Analysis of Historical Explanation (2009). James Tartaglia is Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life (2016).

List of contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Confucius, Richard Kim and Joshua W. Seachris; Chapter 2 The Buddha, Mark Siderits; Chapter 3 Vya-Sa, Arindam Chakrabarti; Chapter 4 Socrates, A.C. Grayling; Chapter 5 Plato, David Skrbina; Chapter 6 Diogenes, Will Desmond; Chapter 7 Zhuangzi, David E. Cooper; Chapter 8 Aristotle, Monte Ransome Johnson; Chapter 9 Epicurus, Catherine Wilson; Chapter 10 Koheleth, Thaddeus Metz; Chapter 11 Epictetus, A.A. Long; Chapter 12 Sextus Empiricus, Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson; Chapter 13 Avicenna, Nader El-Bizri; Chapter 14 Maimonides, Alfred L. Ivry; Chapter 15 Aquinas, Edward Feser; Chapter 16 Montaigne, Stephen Leach; Chapter 17 Descartes, John Cottingham; Chapter 18 Spinoza, Genevieve Lloyd; Chapter 19 Kant, Terry F. Godlove; Chapter 20 Schopenhauer, Robert Wicks; Chapter 21 Kierkegaard, Mark Bernier; Chapter 22 Marx, Amy E. Wendling; Chapter 23 Mill, Frans Svensson; Chapter 24 Nietzsche, Raymond Angelo Belliotti; Chapter 25 Ortega, Pedro Blas González; Chapter 26 Wittgenstein, Reza Hosseini; Chapter 27 Heidegger, Wendell O’Brien; Chapter 28 Sartre, Joseph S. Catalano; Chapter 29 Beauvoir, Jonathan Webber; Chapter 30 Weil, Lissa Mccullough; Chapter 31 Ayer, James Tartaglia; Chapter 32 Camus, William McBride; Chapter 33 Murdoch, Bridget Clarke; Chapter 34 Fanon, Samuel Imbo; Chapter 35 Rorty, Alan Malachowski; Postscript: The blue flower; Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-138-22095-7 / 1138220957
ISBN-13	978-1-138-22095-9 / 9781138220959
Zustand	Neuware