The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question 9781350073661, 1350073660

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this li

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The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question
9781350073661, 1350073660

What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this li

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Have you ever asked yourself what the purpose of your life is? Do you feel like life is meaningless because you have not

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Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives

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In this new book, Khenchen Thrangu provides an exhaustive commentary on the longest and most comprehensive of the three

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This volume draws together four decades of work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the

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Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate buri

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Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the ne

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The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in

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What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associate

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