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O Sentido Na Vida (2011)

by Susan Wolf(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Bizâncio

review 1: a good solid read, and, like many published lectures, it has the advantage of greater accessibility than is typical of a book of contemporary philosophy. but it has at its heart a couple of questions that no professional philosopher i know of has ever managed to settle-- particularly questions about the objectivity of value and what role the outcome of a project has in determining the value of having undertaken it. and though it's not her explicit aim, wolf's lectures also helped me to bring into focus certain questions that have been on my mind lately about what the place of moral reasons are within the context of practical reasoning more generally.
review 2: I wish more philosophers wrote like this: clear, jargon-free, concise and addressed to human experienc... moree. I also like the format of a position statement followed by a number of responses, and then a response to the responses. Wolf argues, and I agree, that "meaning" in life is not the same as either morality or self-interest, and that our habit of defining the latter as mutually exclusive makes it hard for us to understand what makes a life meaningful. less

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