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

825 125 1MB

English Pages 256 Year 2019

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

234 44 2MB Read more

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

158 44 4MB Read more

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

674 77 225KB Read more

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

309 116 11MB Read more

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

247 41 962KB Read more

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

171 44 54MB Read more

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

199 89 9MB Read more

'A warts-and-all memoir of an ex-cop from probationer days on. Fascinating' IAN RANKIN 'A humane but unfl

185 67 1MB Read more

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

484 83 2MB Read more

A brazen defence of the good of human limitations in the face of naive technological optimism. A brazen defence of the

188 86 5MB Read more