James has just turned eighteen, and experiencing an insurmountable tragedy leads him to examine the meaning of life. While attempting to take his own, something happens that has never occurred in the history of humankind. A visitor changes the course of James’s life and gives him the knowledge to solve the world’s problems. While change is in progress, terrorists threaten this miraculous change, giving the world forty-eight hours to agree to their demands. The chase is on, and they are hunted halfway around the globe, but will it be too late to stop them?
How to think about life...not how to live it. The Meaning of Life explains life's purpose and dissects how humans derive meaning into essential components that will help you make your own life meaningful.
Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor Steven M. Cahn, the third edition of E. D. Klemke's The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic....
' In this extraordinary book, an eminent social scientist looks at the big picture and explores what empirical studies from diverse fields tell us about the human condition.
" "Movies and the Meaning of Life" looks at popular and cult movies, examining their assumptions and insights on meaning-of-life questions: What is reality and how can I know it? (The Truman Show, Contact, Waking Life); How do I find myself ...
This is a remarkable book that combines myth and psychology, the poetry of the Sufis and the wisdom of King Solomon, along with Jacob Needleman's searching of his own soul and his culture to explain how money can become a unique means of ...
The book integrates decades of multidisciplinary research, but its clear explanations and humor make it accessible to the general reader.
Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might ...
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 ...
Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide is a comprehensive survey that shepherds readers to the frontiers of modern philosophy at the same time as charting the roads taken to get there.
From the often Caldecott-buzzed Deborah Freedman, a sweet and funny story about finding your place in the world.