Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World
Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

Author: Iddo Landau

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0190657677

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Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, Iddo Landau argues, our lives often are, or could be made, meaningfulwe've just been setting the bar too high for evaluating what meaning there is. When it comes to meaning in life, Landau explains, we have let perfect become the enemy of the good. We have failed to find life perfectly meaningful, and therefore have failed to see any meaning in our lives. We must attune ourselves to enhancing and appreciating the meaning in our lives, and Landau shows us how to do that. In this warmly written book, rich with examples from the author's life, film, literature, and history, Landau offers new theories and practical advice that awaken us to the meaning already present in our lives and demonstrates how we can enhance it. He confronts prevailing nihilist ideas that undermine our existence, and the questions that dog us no matter what we believe. While exposing the weaknesses of ideas that lead many to despair, he builds a strong case for maintaining more hope. Along the way, he faces provocative questions: Would we choose to live forever if we could? Does death render life meaningless? If we examine it in the context of the immensity of the whole universe, can we consider life meaningful? If we feel empty once we achieve our goals, and the pursuit of these goals is what gives us a sense of meaning, then what can we do? Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World is likely to alter the way you understand your life.

The Historical Register
The Historical Register

Author: Edwin C. Hill

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781331726104

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Excerpt from The Historical Register: A Record of People, Places and Events in American History, Illustrated The rest of this history (if God give me life and opportunity) I shall, for brevity sake, handle by way of annals, noting only the heads of principal things, and passages as they fell in order of time, and may seem to be profitable to know, or to make use of. And this may be as the 2. Book. I shall a little return back and begin with a combination made by them before they came ashore, being the first foundation of their government in this place; occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship That when they came ashore they would use their own liberty, for none had power to command them, the patent they had being for Virginia, and not for New England, which belonged to another Government, with which the Virginia company had nothing to do. And partly that such(54) act by them done (this their condition considered) might be as firm as any patent, and in some respects more sure. The form was as follows: In the name of God, Amen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Historical Register
The Historical Register

Author: Edwin Charles Hill

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781333453060

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Excerpt from The Historical Register: A Record of People, Places and Events, in American History Fifth, it is a National Portrait Gallery of the best of 'our citizenship. The portraits included in each volume are faithful and life like presentations, reproduced by the best modern photographic processes. They have been furnished by relatives as being the best for the record, and the utmost care has been taken to make them as perfect as art can make them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.