The search for meaning: a short history
"In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, me...
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Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]
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2007
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| Summary: | "In The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one. Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up to date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions." -- Publisher's description. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XXII, 290 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780520253001 |
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THE SEARCH FOR MEANING / FORD, DENNIS : 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS /
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS INTRODUCTION SECTION PART I: CLASSICAL SOURCES OF
MEANING MYTH AND MEANING PHILOSOPHY AND MEANING SCIENCE AND MEANING
POSTMODERNISM AND MEANING SECTION PART II: CONTEMPORARY SOURCES OF
MEANING PRAGMATISM AND MEANING ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MEANING
METAPHYSICS AND MEANING NATURALISM AND MEANING CONCLUSION APPENDIX: HOW
THE QUESTION OF MEANING CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUESTION OF RIGHT AND WRONG.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT. |
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THE SEARCH FOR MEANING / FORD, DENNIS : 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS /
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS INTRODUCTION SECTION PART I: CLASSICAL SOURCES OF
MEANING MYTH AND MEANING PHILOSOPHY AND MEANING SCIENCE AND MEANING
POSTMODERNISM AND MEANING SECTION PART II: CONTEMPORARY SOURCES OF
MEANING PRAGMATISM AND MEANING ARCHETYPAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MEANING
METAPHYSICS AND MEANING NATURALISM AND MEANING CONCLUSION APPENDIX: HOW
THE QUESTION OF MEANING CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUESTION OF RIGHT AND WRONG.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT. |
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