What makes life meaningful?: a debate
Can human life be meaningful? What does talk about life's meaning even mean? What is God's role, if any, in a meaningful life? These three questions frame this one of a kind debate between two philosophers who have spent most of their professional lives thinking and writing about the topic...
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New York ; London
Routledge
2024
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| Zusammenfassung: | Can human life be meaningful? What does talk about life's meaning even mean? What is God's role, if any, in a meaningful life? These three questions frame this one of a kind debate between two philosophers who have spent most of their professional lives thinking and writing about the topic of life's meaning--Back cover |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 251 Seiten 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781032566153 9781032566061 |
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Contents Acknowledgments Foreword xii xiii BY JOHN MARTIN FISCHER Opening Statements 1 Triadic Meaning and the Benefits of God I 3 JOSHUA W. SEACHRIS 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 Introduction: The Human Need for Meaning 3 What Is Meaning? The Meaning Triad 8 Meanings Small and Big; Narrow and Wide 29 Parts in Wholes: Meaning’s Tilt Toward the Cosmic 32 The “Loss” of Meaning: Meaning’s Tilt Toward Transcendence 35 Absurdity: Meaning’s Tilt Toward Existential Coherence 37 Death: Meaning’s Tilt Toward the End 42 Why Theism Is Better News: Meaning’s Tilt Toward God 53 Summary 68 Making Life Meaningful Without God or a Soul THADDEUS METZ 2.1 Introducing an Earthly Approach to Meaning 70 2.2 What We Are Talking About 75 70
X Contents 2.3 What Is Central to Life’s Meaning 87 2.4 Moderate Supernaturalism 120 2.5 Rebutting Nihilism; Or, Yes, Your Life Has Meaning in It 130 First Round of Replies 3 “Some” Meaning Without God or a Soul: Reply to Metz 137 139 JOSHUA W. SEACHRIS Introduction 140 Points of Agreement 141 God and Objective Value 143 Meaning Pluralism 2.0: Reconsidering Extreme and Moderate Supernaturalism 155 3.5 Meaning Pluralism 2.1: Passively Conditioned Meaning vs. Actively Conditioned Meaning 160 3.6 Making Meaning too Difficult? 162 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 4 Considering the Benefits of God: Reply to Seachris 167 THADDEUS METZ 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Introduction 167 What Does “Life’s Meaning” Mean? 168 What Would Make Life Meaningful? 170 Is Life Meaningful? 180 Second Round of Replies 5 God Is Still Better News for Meaning: Response to Metz’s Reply JOSHUA W. SEACHRIS 5.1 Introduction 185 5.2 The Meaning Triad and the Meaning of Life’s Meaning 186 5.3 God Is Still Better News for Meaning 188 183 185
Contents xi 5.4 On the Supposed Immodesty of Moderate Supernaturalism: The Inescapability of the Cosmic Frame 199 5.5 Existential Desires: Deep and Universal vs. Shallow and Parochial 203 5.6 Is Life Meaningful? 206 6 Types of Meaning and the Natural as Their Source: Response to Seachris’ Reply 210 THADDEUS METZ 6.1 Introduction 210 6.2 Whose Lives Have Meaning and How Much? 211 6.3 The Sources of Objective Value 214 6.4 Which Source Would Be Better? 219 6.5 Which Source Exists? 221 6.6 Concluding Remarks 223 Further Readings Glossary References Index 225 232 239 247 |
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