The Meaning of Life and Death Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question 1st Edition by Michael Hauskeller 9781350073654 1350073652

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Author: Michael Hauskeller

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions such as these have been asked for a long time, but nobody has found a conclusive answer yet. The connection between death and meaning, however, has taken centre stage in the philosophical and literary work of some of the world’s greatest writers: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus. This book explores their ideas, weaving a rich tapestry of concepts, voices and images, helping the reader to understand the concerns at the heart of those writers’ work and uncovering common themes and stark contrasts in their understanding of what kind of world we live in and what really matters in life.

The Meaning of Life and Death Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Worst of All Possible Worlds

• The misery of life
• The world as a problem
• The true nature of the world
• Making sense of the world
• Temporal immortality
• How not to be: The negation of the will
• Life’s true purpose

Chapter 2: The Despair of Not Being Oneself

• The aesthetic mode of life
• The ethical mode of life
• The religious mode of life
• Despair and the sickness unto death
• Learning to be silent

Chapter 3: The Interlinked Terrors and Wonders of God: Herman Melville (1819–1891)

• The ungraspable phantom of life
• No hearts above the snow line
• The tiger heart that pants beneath the ocean’s skin
• That beautiful creature, the rattlesnake
• Like a true child of fire
• Playing the fool in a sensible way

Chapter 4: The Hell of No Longer Being Able to Love: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)

• Nothing matters
• Of lice and men
• Two times two makes five
• Corpses everywhere
• So many beautiful things
• Spiders in all the corners

Chapter 5: The Inevitable End of Everything: Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)

• How to live?
• The dragon of death, waiting to tear us to pieces
• Looking for a way out
• Faith
• The fragility of meaning
• Two kinds of love

Chapter 6: The Joy of Living Dangerously

• The last human and the superhuman
• Beyond good and evil
• The morality of pity and the value of suffering
• Sacred, healthy selfishness
• All good things laugh: Against the spirit of heaviness
• Death and eternal recurrence

Chapter 7: The Dramatic Richness of the Concrete World

• Making a difference
• The rapture of bones under hedges
• The healthy-minded and the sick souls
• From midnight to daylight
• The right to believe
• The atrocious harmlessness of things

Chapter 8: The Only Life That Is Really Lived

• The terrible deception of love
• The paradox of desire
• The constant dying of the self
• Stepping into the same river twice
• Explorers of the unseen
• Placed beyond time

Chapter 9: Our Hopeless Battle Against the Boundaries of Language: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

• The nature and use of philosophy
• The riddle of life and its dissolution
• An alien in the world
• Ethics as an enquiry into the meaning of life
• Language as a toolbox
• The things we cannot doubt

Chapter 10: The Benign Indifference of the World

• The absurd
• Freedom
• So what?
• Defending life
• Rebellion and solidarity
• Death and limits

Postlude
Notes

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