... C Prozac autonomy Kramer Peter authenticity Karp David A James William morality therapy meaningful life health illness Although I occasionally return to wrongdoing, the focus in Part IV is the connection between meaningful lives and positive health—that is, biopsychosocial well‐being...

...Ethicists have linked meaningful life and honesty with oneself. Similarly, therapists regard honesty with oneself as integral to healing, and they regard contact with reality as a criterion for positive mental health. However, some psychologists have recently suggested that self-deception...

... location God’s omnipresence vitality perception. meaningful life history in faith ...

... nihilism Sievers B Wolf S market mechanisms purpose Aristotle Immanuel Kant job crafting meaning of life meaning of work meaningful work meaningful life John Rawls Too many people in our modern economy remain stuck practicing work that has little meaning to them—for example, sweatshop laborers...

... the value and primacy of patient care over patient medicalization and bureaucracy. Resonating with Frankl’s claim that people find meaning through suffering, the authors discuss the power of meaningful work in helping nurses to find their vocation and a meaningful life. care care work nurses trust...

... emotions eudaimonia Nussbaum M C respect Argent LLP Austria CODALoop project Amsterdam Kohlbacher J meaning in life MIL Netherlands norms meaningful city justice social cooperation agonism republicanism institution civic work meaning-making meaningful work meaningful life The value...

... realism Freud Sigmund naturalism mono no aware hedonism religion atheists meaningful life purposeful life religious people human mortality C4.P1 ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’ C4.P2 In 2008, a poster with this slogan appeared on London buses, supported...

... disappointment value consumption value satiety leisure plans temporal style Csikszentmihalyi Mihalyi flow state Gini Al boredom temporal meaning meaningful life value emotion leisure interest evaluator Boredom is worth exploring partly because it is so hard to look at, so much taken for granted...

... Meaningful Life Naturalism Transhumanism ‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time.’ William Blake (Proverbs of Hell) In the previous chapter , I presented what I take to be the most defensible forms of supernaturalism, ones that appear truly to follow from reasonable premises...

... observations and results from the interviews and the previous chapters. Four core values of the city of equals are defined, based on reflection on the interviews and the literature: accessibility to the city’s services is not constituted by the market; a sense of a meaningful life; diversity and social mixing...

... that maintain social cohesion by avoiding internal conflict and protecting each other from external intrusion. This chapter also builds on teachers’ understanding of core neoliberal ideologies that have defined education policy in India, by commenting on what a meaningful life is for themselves...

... to distract from contemplation, replacing it with a barely concealed impatience or fear of boredom (two relatively recent products—boredom as an identified state is only a bit over two centuries old—that are not the most attractive products of the modern condition). An examination of what a meaningful life...

... Kant Christianity meaningful life Love is a phenomenon that is an ineradicable aspect of our human nature, one of the most powerful emotions to which we are subject. At the instinctual and biological level its roots are no doubt traceable to our evolutionary past, in particular to the attraction...

... concerned with its start and the second its end. In Roe v. Wade and its progeny, the Court avoided the question of when human life begins and instead identified when “meaningful life” begins, which it established at “viability” (i.e., the time when a fetus could survive on its own...

... S meaning people’s lives God’s plan Baier K commitment God religion linguistics literature success moral goodness character objective value motivation pleasure pain good life meaningful life “If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.” I have now provided an account of rationality...

... meaningful life normative outlook Susan Wolf Thaddeus Metz value time management agent-independent value subjective ends The philosophical literature on meaningful living is substantial not simply because this topic is of fundamental human importance but also because it is significantly unclear what...

... Nomy motivating reasons Watson Gary demoralization instrumental reasoning inefficacy of plans paralysis of the will Seligman Martin E P future hope fulness estrangement agency motivation meaningful life depression demoralization The aim of the previous chapter was to determine what...

... are shaped in important ways by the personal, the nonrational, and optional styles. conception of meaningfulness boredom commitment leading a life meaningfulness plans temporal costs time expenditure intention temporally oriented beings interest meaningful life evaluator nonrational hope...

... things, that: if we are living in a full-scale simulation, we would still enjoy broad swathes of knowledge about non-psychological entities, and our lives might still be deeply meaningful. I explore more generally the value of non-social knowledge versus social knowledge for a meaningful life, where...

... love from mere caring is conceived in terms of love’s intimacy as reflected in a specific form of vulnerability. The lover, but not the mere carer, is subject to damage in her sense of herself as an agent leading a meaningful life directly in virtue of being permanently separated from the relevant...