Meaning of Life: Perspectives from the World’s Great Intellectual Traditions

Compilation by Jay L. Garfield

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  1. 1.
    The Meaning of the Meaning of Life
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    The Bhagavad-Gita — Choice and Daily Life
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    The Bhagavad-Gita — Discipline and Duty
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    The Bhagavad-Gita — Union and Purpose
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    Aristotle on Life — The Big Picture
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    Aristotle — The Highest Good
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    Aristotle — The Happy Life
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    Job's Predicament — Life Is So Unfair
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    Job's Challenge — Who Are We?
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    Stoicism — Rationality and Acceptance
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    Human Finitude — The Epicurean Synthesis
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    Confucius — Order in the Cosmos and in Life
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    Daodejing — The Dao of Life and Spontaneity
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    Daodejing — The Best Life Is a Simple Life
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    Daodejing — Subtlety and Paradox
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    Zhuangzi on Daoism — Impermanence and Harmony
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    The Teachings of the Buddha
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    Santideva — Mahayana Buddhism
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    Santideva — Transforming the Mind
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    Zen — The Moon in a Dewdrop and Impermanence
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    Zen — Being-Time and Primordial Awakening
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    Taking Stock of the Classical World
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    Hume's Skepticism and the Place of God
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    Hume's Careless and Compassionate Vision
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    Kant — Immaturity and the Challenge to Know
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    Mill's Call to Individuality and to Liberty
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    Tolstoy — Is Everyday Life the Real Thing?
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    Nietzsche — Twilight of the Idols
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    Nietzsche — Achieving Authenticity
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    Gandhi — Satyagraha and Holding Fast to Truth
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    Gandhi — The Call to a Supernormal Life
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    Lame Deer — Life Enfolded in Symbols
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    Lame Deer — Our Place in a Symbolic World
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    HH Dalai Lama XIV — a Modern Buddhist View
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    HH Dalai Lama XIV — Discernment and Happiness
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    So, What Is the Meaning of Life?

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