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Ambivalence
Analogy
Analytic philosophy
Attractiveness
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Basic Books
Bernard Williams
Boredom
Brain in a vat
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Collegiality
Consequentialism
Delusion
Desire
Endoxa
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Ethics
Feeling
Good and evil
Gratitude
Hedonism
Henri Rousseau
Henry Darger
Inquiry
Intention
Intentionality
Jonathan Haidt
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Lecture
Marcel Duchamp
Meaningful life
Moral luck
Morality
Motivation
Multiculturalism
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Nazism
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Optimism
Oxford University Press
Patriotism
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Philosophical skepticism
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Pleasure
Politics
Positive psychology
Practical reason
Psychological egoism
Psychology
Qualia
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Reason
Recipe
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Sadness
Scientist
Self-interest
Selfishness
Skepticism
Student (magazine)
Suggestion
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Termite
The Happiness Hypothesis
The Myth of Sisyphus
Theory
Thought
Understanding
Utilitarianism
Value judgment
Well-being
Product details
- ISBN 9780691154503
- Weight: 198g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love--and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life. Written in a lively and engaging style, and full of provocative examples, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters is a profound and original reflection on a subject of permanent human concern.
Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Freedom within Reason.
