LEADER 03704nam 22005535 450 001 9910986140503321 005 20250308115222.0 010 $a9783031803628 010 $a3031803620 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-80362-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31952046 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31952046 035 $a(CKB)37801694700041 035 $a(OCoLC)1506741923 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-80362-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937801694700041 100 $a20250308d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMeaning in Life $eA Subjectivist Account /$fby Michael Hauskeller 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (333 pages) 311 08$a9783031803611 311 08$a3031803612 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Apparent Absurdity of Meaning Subjectivism -- Chapter 3: Meaning Nihilism, Ultimate Purpose, and God -- Chapter 4: Death and Ultimate Significance -- Chapter 5: Mattering and Objective Value -- Chapter 6: Are Only Useful Lives Meaningful? -- Chapter 7: Can the Life of Non-Human Animals Be Meaningful? -- Chapter 8: Importance, Achievement, and Post-Mortal Fame -- Chapter 9: Towards a Pluralistic Account of Meaning in Life -- Chapter 10: Existential Distress, Suicide, and Moral Faith -- Chapter 11: What It Means to Experience One?s Life as Meaningful -- Chapter 12: Meaning, Doing Good, and Being Good -- Chapter 13: Can the Experience of Meaning Ever Be Illusory? -- Chapter 14: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book develops a subjectivist account of meaning in life and argues that meaning or its absence can only be judged by the way we feel about our lives. Against many philosophers who consider that a life can only be meaningful if it ?makes a difference? and contributes something important, this book contends that meaningfulness is not an objective quality of lives, nor is it in some way dependent on such a quality. Meaning is not like truth, which is commonly thought to be an objective quality of propositions. A person cannot feel their life to be meaningful, while in fact it is not, because meaning does not depend on the presence of certain features without which no life can be rightly considered meaningful. The book therefore concludes that many people live a meaningful life. Meaning is not the prerogative of an elite minority. This book will be essential reading for philosophers and postgraduate students researching the meaning of life and is also suitable for use in teaching on philosophy courses at university level. Michael Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, and has been Head of the Department of Philosophy since January 2018. Professor Hauskeller has published three previous books with Palgrave Macmillan: Sex and the Posthuman Condition (2014), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (ed., 2015), and Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016). 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aSelf 606 $aEthics 606 $aPhilosophy of the Self 606 $aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aSelf. 615 0$aEthics. 615 14$aPhilosophy of the Self. 615 24$aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 676 $a128.2 700 $aHauskeller$b Michael$0953332 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910986140503321 996 $aMeaning in Life$94327869 997 $aUNINA