How to live meaningfully in the face of the unknowable We human beings
had no say in existing—we just opened our eyes and found ourselves
here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the
world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains.
When our minds and senses are baffled, faith can seem justified—but
faith is not knowledge. In Ultimate Questions, acclaimed philosopher
Bryan Magee provocatively argues that we have no way of fathoming our
own natures or finding definitive answers to the big questions we all
face. With eloquence and grace, Magee urges us to be the mapmakers of
what is intelligible, and to identify the boundaries of
meaningfulness. He traces this tradition of thought to his chief
philosophical mentors—Locke, Hume, Kant, and Schopenhauer—and
shows why this approach to the enigma of existence can enrich our
lives and transform our understanding of the human predicament. As
Magee puts it, "There is a world of difference between being lost in
the daylight and being lost in the dark." The crowning achievement to
a distinguished philosophical career, Ultimate Questions is a deeply
personal meditation on the meaning of life and the ways we should live
and face death.
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ISBN
9781400880454
Publisert
2016
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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