Leach / Tartaglia The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-38592-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leach, Stephen

Tartaglia, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface

Confucius

Joshua Seachris and Richard Kim

The Buddha

Mark Siderits

Vyasa

Arindam Chakrabarti

Socrates

A.C. Grayling

Plato

David Skrbina

Diogenes

Will Desmond

Zhuangzi

David E. Cooper

Aristotle

Monte Ransome Johnson

Epicurus

Catherine Wilson

Koheleth

Thaddeus Metz

Epictetus

A.A. Long

Sextus Empiricus

Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson

Avicenna

Nader El-Bizri

Maimonides

Alfred L. Ivry

Aquinas

Edward Feser

Montaigne

Stephen Leach

Descartes

John Cottingham

Spinoza

Genevieve Lloyd

Kant

Terry F. Godlove

Schopenhauer

Robert Wicks

Kierkegaard

Mark Bernier

Marx

Amy E. Wendling

Mill

Frans Svensson

Nietzsche

Raymond Angelo Belliotti

Ortega

Pedro Blas González

Wittgenstein

Reza Hosseini

Heidegger

Wendell O’Brien



Sartre

Joseph S. Catalano

Beauvoir

Jonathan Webber

Weil

Lissa McCullough

Ayer

James Tartaglia

Camus

William McBride

Murdoch

Bridget Clarke

Fanon

Samuel Imbo

Rorty

Alan Malachowski

Postscript: The Blue Flower
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).