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On the Meaning of Life (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

By Garrett Thomson

Book information

Publisher
Wadsworth Publishing
Year
2002
ISBN
9780534595807, 0534595804
LCC
BD431 .T296 2003
Open Library ID
OL3657472M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11970637 bytes)
Series
Wadsworth Philosophers Series
Edition
1
Pages
84\84
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24

Description

I am a philosophy student at Temple University, I came across this book at my school's library by accident and decided to read it. I was pleasantly surprised to find a concise and very well written philosophic account of various paths towards finding meaning in one's life and how 9 of these paths, or ways of thinking, are mistaken and should be re-evaluated. The author is well versed in philosophy and writes like a top-notch philosophy professor.

I believe this book should be read by most people, if not only to get a brief overview of the issues involved in extracting meaning from life so as to begin their own journey towards personal meaning. This would be a great gift to someone who is apt towards questioning philosophic concepts. It is not necessarily an "easy" read for the layperson, but for those of you who can stick with it I believe you will benefit greatly from doing so.

Wadsworth is a great publisher with a whole series starting with "on", from "On Jung" to "On Gurdjieff" and "On Hume".

Here is the link:
http://academic.cengage.com/cengage/discipline.do?disciplinenumber=5

I hope this review reaches someone and helps him/her with their own personal search.

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