On the Meaning of Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7533481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Cottingham (0000-0001-5205-0323, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 136 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | On the Meaning of Life (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203164242 |
| OpenAlex | W1481746844 |
| Open Library | OL17087484M |
| ISBN | 9780203164242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and powerfully drawn.Drawing skillfully on a wealth of thinkers, writers and scientists from Augustine, Descartes, Freud and Camus, to Spinoza, Pascal, Darwin, and Wittgenstein, On the Meaning of Life breathes new vitality into one of the very biggest questions
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Faith · Humanity · Meaning (existential · Morality · Sociology · Spirituality · Theology · Diverse Philosophical and Cultural Studies · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Studies · Life · Meaning (Philosophy) · Philosophy and science · Spiritual life
Is More Life Always Better? The New Biology of Aging and the Meaning of Life
Conceptualizing great meaning in life
Well-Being and Meaning in Life
Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
The Spiritual Dimension
Dimensions of Meaning in the Occupations of Daily Life
Nietzsche's the Gay Science
Meaningfulness and Identities
The Meaning of Lives and the Meaning of Things
Moral Monsters, Significance, and Meaning in Life
Meaning in Life as the Comprehensive Value. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Morality
On Atheist Spirituality
Desirability without Desire
Despair as a Threat to Meaning
Meaning in the Pursuit of Pleasure
Meaning, will to meaning, and Frankl’s existential psychiatry
Anything Can Be Meaningful
In Defence of Sense
Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Antinatalism, Theism, and Meaning in Life
What is spirituality? The challenges of a philosophical definition
A puzzle about meaning and luck
Externalism, internalism, and meaningful lives
Meaning and beauty
Competitive Value, Noncompetitive Value, and Life's Meaning
Civilians’ Strategies of Post-Conflict Social Revival in Northwestern Pakistan
Between Subjectivity and Flourishing
Life with HIV and Aids in the Era of Effective Treatments
The other side of suicide loss
Epiphanies, life-affirmation, and virtue
The meaningfulness gap in AI ethics
Emotion, religious practice, and cosmopolitan secularism
Deep desires
‘Frail worms of the earth’
Is religious experience epistemologically reliable? An embodied-philosophical inquiry
Can non-theists appropriately feel existential gratitude
Homo religiosus
Transculturalism and the Meaning of Life
Ground Projects and the Joy of Living
Evaluating the relationships among religion, social virtues, and meaning in life
The Meaning of Life
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
Camus’ Feeling of the Absurd
Religious coping strategies and perceived causes of sickness and health in South Africa
Contributions of leisure to “meaning-making” and its implications for leisure studies and services
An African response to absurdism
Psychology, Values, and the Meaning of Life
Meaningfulness as Sensefulness
The Immortal, the Intrinsic and the Quasi Meaning of Life
The Good Cause Account of the Meaning of Life
Meaningful Rest
The Threat of Anti-Theism
New Developments in the Meaning of Life
Recent Work on the Meaning of Life and Philosophy of Religion
Diversity and Interpretation. Toward a Pluralist Realist Description of Religious Experience
| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 53 |