Making Meaning:: Seeking the Most Meaningful Life
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Making Meaning explores the following eight sources of meaning: 1) relationships, 2) com-
munity, 3) dialogue, 4) work, 5) art, 6) search for God, 7) possessions and 8) intangibles or nonphysical realities. The last source, potentially the largest, is explained and argued for. We have another crying need today to know more than physical things.
This book tries to satisfy yet another crying need today: the objectivity of meaning. This gives us external standards to judge and live by. Today's widespread subjective view of meaning allows everyone to believe whatever they want. This view is dangerously chaotic and wrong.
Toward the end Making Meaning tackles its major negative challenges: meaninglessness, nihilism (the view that nothing matters eventually) and extreme relativism.
Finally, this book defines what is the meaning of life by drawing from all these sources. A very brief survey of the history of thinking about the meaning of life including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle concludes this book
Welcome to the wonderful new field of meaningology!
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Making Meaning mostly involves drawing from its many sources as symbolized by the many good things in nature, including the heights of mountaintops and the warm light of the sun.
Bob Lichtenbert
Bob Lichtenbert has taught philosophy for over forty years A philosophical in various colleges. Since 1988, he has published his journal, "The Meaning of Life." He now reviews plays but has reviewed and written about all the arts in various publications. Bob earned his M. A. and Ph. D. in philosophy-the only real Ph. D.!--from Tulane University in New Orleans. After teaching in North Adams, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina, Dr. Lichtenbert now lives in his hometown, Chicago. His wife, Mary, is deceased. He has two children, Amy and Steve.
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