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Is Human Life Absurd? A Philosophical Inquiry into Finitude, Value, and Meaning: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology, cartea 337

Autor Raymond Angelo Belliotti
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iul 2019
In this work, Belliotti unravels the paradoxes of human existence. The purpose of this philosophical journey is to reveal paths for forging meaningful, significant, valuable, even important lives. By examining notions of The Absurd expressed within Search for the Holy Grail, The Seventh Seal, and The Big Lebowski, the author crafts a working definition of “absurdity.” He then investigates the contributions of classical thinkers such as Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Sartre, Camus, as well as philosophers such as Nagel, Feinberg, and Taylor. After arguing that human life is not inherently absurd, Belliotti examines the implications of mortality for human existence, the relationship between subjective and objective meaning, and the persuasiveness of several challenging contemporary renderings of meaningful human lives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004401594
ISBN-10: 9004401598
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology


Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Defining the Absurd
1 Absurdity Within Classical Cinema
1.1Search for the Holy Grail (1975)
1.2The Seventh Seal (1957)
1.3The Big Lebowski (1998)
2 Absurdity in Human Life
3 Feinberg’s Analysis of Absurdity
4 A Working Definition of Absurdity

2 Relational Absurdity
1 Tolstoy’s Psychological Collapse and Redemption
2 Camus and the Absurd
2.1A Stoic Precursor: Marcus Aurelius
2.2Sisyphus the Defiant Hero
2.3Sisyphus as Prince of Propinquity
2.4Has Camus Demonstrated that Human Life is Absurd?
3 Kierkegaard, Religion, and the Absurd
4 Sartre and the Absurd
4.1Defining Who We Are
4.2Are We Free?
4.3Emotions
4.4Has Sartre Demonstrated that Human Life is Absurd?
5 The Relationship between the Absurd and the Meaningful
6 The Contingent Nature of Absurdity

3 Internal Absurdity
1 Shakespeare and the Absurd
2 The Cosmic Perspective and the Personal Perspective
3 Schopenhauer’s Derivation of Absurdity from the Nature of Desire
4 Nietzsche: Will to Power and Process Values
4.1Nihilism and Will to Power
4.2Grand Strivers and Pogo Sticks
4.3Suffering, Happiness, and Power
4.4Denying Pessimism, Striving Grandly, and Lingering Doubts
5 Nagel and the Absurd Within
5.1The Absurd as an Objective Condition and as a Subjective Experience
5.2Is Nagel’s Absurd an Inevitable Part of the Human Condition?
5.3Everyday Absurdity and the Absurdity of an Entire Human Life
5.4What is the Proper Human Response to the Absurd?
6 Combatting the Absurd
6.1Process and Inherent Values
6.2Can We Turn “Absurdity” into Practical Advantage?
7 The Contingency of Absurdity

4 Taylor’s Romance with Meaningful Living
1 Taylor and the Absurd
1.1“The Meaning of Life” (1970)
1.2“The Meaning of Human Existence” (1981)
1.3“Time and Life’s Meaning” (1987)
1.4“The Meaning of Life” (1999)
2 Reconstructing Taylor on Meaning in Life
3 The Cosmic and Personal Perspectives, Again

5 Interpreting a Meaningful Human Life
1 Full and Attenuated Meaning
2 The Fundamentality Theory
2.1The Intuitions in Play
2.2Reason and Meaning
2.3Posthumous Significance and Meaning in Life
2.4Purposive Theories of Meaning
3 Why a Positive Visceral Response is Necessary for Meaning in Life
4 Subjective Attraction Meets Objective Value
5 An Analysis of a Minimally Meaningful Human Life

Bibliography
About the Author
Index

Notă biografică

Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus. He is the author of 20 books, including Justifying Law; Good Sex; What is the Meaning of Human Life?; Happiness is Overrated; Shakespeare and Philosophy; Dante’s Deadly Sins; and Machiavelli’s Secret.