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Meaning in Life, Volume 1: The Creation of Value - Couverture souple

Singer, Irving

 
9780262513562: Meaning in Life, Volume 1: The Creation of Value
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262513560 ISBN 13 : 9780262513562
Editeur : MIT Press, 2009

Synopsis

An acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.

What is meaning in life? Does anything really matter? How can a life achieve lasting significance? How can we explain the human propensity to struggle for ideals? How is meaning related to contentment, happiness, joy? Is meaning something we discover, or do we create it? What is the nature of value, and what are its sources in human experience? Can there be a meaning in life without religious faith? What is the meaning of death? Is life worth living? What would enable us to have a love of life?

“Meaning in life,” writes philosopher Irving Singer, “and the meaning in our own lives, results from creative efforts on our part. It is not a prior reality awaiting our discovery. Though we talk about a 'search' for meaning, what we are seeking is primarily a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.” In The Creation of Value, the first volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer studies the nature of imagination, idealization, and love in the context of humanity's attempt to define itself through the pursuit of meanings and values that it creates. Singer confronts life's most troubling problems: the meaning of death, the presence of anxiety in daily existence, the conditions needed for us to have a life worth living, and the possibility of a love of life in others as well as in ourselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

Irving Singer was Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He was the author of the trilogies The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up, Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas, all published by the MIT Press, and many other books.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262513560
ISBN 13 
9780262513562
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
186
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