Meaning in life: an analytic study

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"What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda."--Publisher's website.

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Full title :Meaning in life : an analytic study / Thaddeus Metz.

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"What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda."--Publisher's website.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 269 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199599318, 0199599319, 0191662968, 9780191662966
oclc:ocn873989284
LC Classification:BD431
Dewey Decimal:113.8

Introduction -- The concept of meaning -- The bearer of meaning -- The value of meaning -- Purpose theory I: questioning motivations -- Purpose theory II: advancing objections -- Non-purposive supernaturalism -- Rejecting supernaturalism -- Subjectivism -- Objectivism I: being attracted, meriting attraction, and promoting consequences -- Objectivism II: non-concequentialism -- Objectivism III: the fundamentality theory -- Conclusion: the fine game of nil.