Meaning in Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11420014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Jennings (0000-0002-3112-3076, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-122 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580136.2016.1150560 |
| OpenAlex | W2320354755 |
| Language | EN |
Thaddeus Metz's book Meaning in Life is, as he puts it, the culmination of 'more than a decade's reflection' (p. 249) on the subject, a good deal of it published, and it shows. It is a thoroughly argued, carefully constructed attempt, in the style of contemporary analytic philosophy, to ascertain what is meant when an individual person is judged to be living, or to have lived, a meaningful life. As such, it does credit to the genre
Epistemology · Linguistics · Sociology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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