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Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems...
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oapen-20.500.12657-296952022-12-09T02:14:58Z Philosophy in a Meaningless Life Tartaglia, James Philosophy Philosophy Consciousness Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Meaning of life Metaphysics Nihilism Ontology Problem of universals Transcendence (religion) bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence. 2018-07-10 23:55 2020-03-14 03:00:34 2020-04-01T12:36:01Z 2020-04-01T12:36:01Z 2016-12-15 book 1000250 OCN: 1076644527 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29695 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781474247672.pdf 9781474247689.epub Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781474247696 101120 10.5040/9781474247696 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) London, England 101120 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the conclusion that life is meaningless, and in the process have distanced philosophy from the concept of transcendence. |
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