What Makes Life Meaningful A Debate 1st Edition by Thaddeus Metz, Joshua Seachris ISBN 1032566159 978-1032566153

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ISBN 10: 1032566159

ISBN 13:  978-1032566153

Author: Thaddeus Metz, Joshua W. Seachris 

Can human life be meaningful? What does talk about life’s meaning even mean? What is God’s role, if any, in a meaningful life? These three questions frame this one-of-a-kind debate between two philosophers who have spent most of their professional lives thinking and writing about the topic of life’s meaning.

In this wide-ranging scholarly conversation, Professors Thaddeus Metz and Joshua W. Seachris develop and defend their own unique answers to these questions, while responding to each other’s objections in a lively dialog format. Seachris argues that the concept of life’s meaning largely revolves around three interconnected ideas―mattering, purpose, and sense-making; that a meaningful human life involves sufficiently manifesting all three; and that God would importantly enhance the meaningfulness of life on each of these three fronts. Metz instead holds that talk of life’s meaning is about a variety of properties such as meriting pride, transcending one’s animal self, making a contribution, and authoring a life-story. For him, many lives are meaningful insofar as they exercise intelligence in positive, robust, and developmental ways. Finally, Metz argues that God is unnecessary for an objective meaning that suits human nature.

Metz and Seachris develop and defend their own unique answers to these three questions, while responding to each other’s objections in a dialog format that is accessible to students though―given their new contributions―will be of great interest to scholars as well.

Table of contents: 

Opening Statements

1. Triadic Meaning and the Benefits of God
Joshua W. Seachris

2. Making Life Meaningful Without God or a Soul
Thaddeus Metz

First Round of Replies

3. “Some” Meaning Without God or a Soul: Reply to Metz
Joshua W. Seachris

4. Considering the Benefits of God: Reply to Seachris
Thaddeus Metz

Second Round of Replies

5. God Is Still Better News for Meaning: Response to Metz’s Reply
Joshua W. Seachris

6. Types of Meaning and the Natural as Their Source: Response to Seachris’ Reply
Thaddeus Metz

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