A Philosopher’s Lifelong Search for Meaning – Table of Contents

(Author’s note. This is a table of contents for my posts last year about life and meaning. You can click on the links below to read any part of those essays.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Part 1 – Life and Meaning

Two Questions about Life and Meaning
What Do We Mean by Meaning?
Should We Ask About Meaning?

Part 2 – Religion and Meaning

Western Religions: Are They True?
Western Religions: Are They Good?
Western Religions: Do They Reveal Meaning?
Eastern Religions and Meaning in Life

Part 3 – Philosophy, Science, and Meaning

     8. Western Philosophy and Meaning in Life

     9. Science and Meaning in Life

    10. Is Meaning in Life Enough? 

Part 4 – Death and Meaning 

Is There A Heaven?
Death is Bad For US
Individual Death and Meaning
Cosmic Death and Meaning
Scientific Immortality: Individual and Cosmic

Part 5 – Transhumanism and Meaning  

A Fully Meaningful Cosmos
Transhumanism and Fully Meaningful Cosmos
Transhumanism and Religion
Cosmic Evolution and the Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life

Part 6 – Skepticism and Meaning

     21. Skepticism and Meaning

     22. Back to Nihilism

Part 7 – Optimism and Hope



     23. Attitudinal Optimism

     24. Attitudinal Hope

     25. Wishful Hope

Part 8 – Hope and Meaning



     26. What I Hope For

     27. The Source of Hope

     28. Ignorance as a Justification of Hope

     29.Hope and Meaning

     30. Losing Hope

     31. What Hope Recommends

     32. Is Hope Enough?

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