Search for Meaning
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ancient philosophy
archetypes
aristotle
Author_Dennis Ford
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classical philosophy
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fulfillment
greek philosophy
happiness
huston smith
intellectual history
james hillman
joseph campbell
kant
kierkegaard
materialism
meaning
meaninglessness
metaphysics
moral philosophy
myth
mythology
naturalism
nature
nonfiction
philosophy
postmodernism
pragmatism
purpose
religion
science
spirituality
truth
virtue
william james
Product details
- ISBN 9780520257931
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In "The Search for Meaning: A Short History", Dennis Ford explores eight approaches human beings have pursued over time to invest life with meaning and to infuse order into a seemingly chaotic universe. These include myth, philosophy, science, postmodernism, pragmatism, archetypal psychology, metaphysics, and naturalism. In engaging, companionable prose, Ford boils down these systems to their bare essentials, showing the difference between viewing the world from a religious point of view and that of a naturalist, and comparing a scientific worldview to a philosophical one.Ford investigates the contributions of the Greeks, Kant, and William James, and brings the discussion up-to-date with contemporary thinkers. He proffers the refreshing idea that in today's world, the answers provided by traditional religions to increasingly difficult questions have lost their currency for many and that the reductive or rationalist answers provided by science and postmodernism are themselves rife with unexamined assumptions.
Dennis Ford is the author of Sins of Omission: A Primer on Moral Indifference (1990).
