From Question to Quest: Literary-Philosophical Enquiries into the Challenges of Life
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| adam_text | From Question to Quest:
Literary-Philosophical Enquiries
into the Challenges of Life
By
Marian F. Sia and Santiago Sia
CAMBRIDGE
SCHOLARS
PUBLISHING
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword ix
Professor David Jasper
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Chapter One 7
Is Life a Sentence?: The Quest for Meaning
Chapter Two 25
Education—For What?: The Quest for Wisdom
Chapter Three 43
What Ought I to Do?: The Quest for the Good
Chapter Four 59
The Need for Another—Why?: The Quest for Community
Chapter Five 81
How should We Interact with One Another?: The Quest for Power
Chapter Six 97
Seeing God in All Things—Even in Suffering?: The Quest
for a Rationale
Chapter Seven 115
O, Death, Where is Thy Sting?: The Quest for Deliverance
Chapter Eight 139
You still shall Live—for Evermore?: The Quest for Immortality
viii Table of Contents
Postscript 169
Where Does it All End?: the Quest for Answers
Appendix A 187
Literature and Philosophy: A Whiteheadian Nexus
Appendix B 203
Suffering and Surrender in the Midst of Divine Persuasion:
A Discussion of the Sias Approach to the Challenge of Suffering
and Evil by Aliman Sears
A Message from President Mary McAleese of Ireland 235
Bibliography 237
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| contents | In facing up to life and its challenges, questions inevitably arise. Different situations provoke specific questions-mostly trivial but frequently fundamental-always seeking some kind of answer. While the transition from question to quest is a rather natural one for human beings and the need for answers is a serious human demand, the quest itself is significant, precisely because it is a human task. This book offers a number of literary-philosophical enquiries into these challenges of life. .. |
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