Historical Association Studies

Sources. Introduction. Part I: Has Life a Meaning?. 1. Vanity of Vanities: Ecclesiastes. 2. My Confession: Leo Tolstoy. 3. The Purpose of Mana s Existence: Kurt Baier. 4. Has the Question about the Meaning of Life any Meaning? Rudolf Wohlgennant. 5. The Meaning of Life: Richard Taylor. 6. The Absurd: Thomas Nagel. 7. On the Meaning of Life: Moritz Schlick. 8. What is There in Horse Racing? John Wisdom. Part II: Death, Suffering and the Value of Life:. 9. We Have Nothing to Fear in Death: Lucretius. 10. Death: Mary Mothersill. 11. Why We Should not be Biased towards the Future: Derek Parfit. 12. The Vanity and Suffering of Life: Arthur Schpenhauer. 13. Murder and a World without Human Beings: G. E. Moore. 14. The Sanctity of Life: Jonathan Glover. 15. What is Wrong with Killing People? R. E. Ewin. 16. A Covenant for the Ark? Peter Singer. Part III: Nature and Society:. 17. The Tree of Knowledge: Genesis. 18. The Origin of Inequality: Jean--Jacques Rousseau. 19. Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity, and Misery: Thomas Hobbes. 20. Man and the State: Aristotle. 21. Nature: John Stuart Mill. Part IV: Pleasure, Happiness and Self--Realization:. 22. Pleasure and Desire: Plato. 23. The Difference of Quality I Pleasures and of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible: John Stuart Mill. 24. The Experience Machine: Robert Nozick. 25. How Should a Man Live? Aristotle. 26. My Station and its Duties: F. H. Bradley. 27. Freedom and Bad Faith: Jean--Paul Sartre. 28. Homo Ludens: J. Huizinga. 29. Moral Tradition: John Keres. Index.