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In a world of numerous challenges, the search for meaning and purpose is an important pursuit. This book offers diverse perspectives on the connections between meaning and service, helping readers integrate them into their own personal and professional life.
The editors of this critical volume have compiled a rich group of authors comprised of professors, psychotherapists, counselling practitioners, and doctoral students, to address society’s struggle to find meaning. A rich classroom resource, this book is a particularly important contribution to the Academy given our current lived experience in research, and also for personal reflection. Still in the throes of recovering from the COVID 19 pandemic, economic challenges, environmental disasters, and conflicts in various places in our world, to name only a few of our current challenges, the search for meaning and purpose has become an important pursuit for many. Many people today are looking for an often elusive “more.” This book poses numerous questions reflecting a variety of perspectives on the connections between meaning and service. These diverse perspectives offer readers points of engagement in their own pursuit of integrating meaning and service in their own personal and professional life.
This accessible look at yoga philosophy and psychology follows the eight limbs of yoga from foundational ethics to the highest states of consciousness. Based on 30 years of research, it connects the insights of this ancient tradition to the challenges we face today.
Hume’s Labyrinth explores his famous “bundle theory of the self” and his own critical reservations about it. It argues the theory was not a failed account, but a pragmatic tool intended to help further philosophical investigations into the mind.
Van Tongeren offers a thorough study of Nietzsche’s thoughts on nihilism, the history of the concept, the different ways in which he tries to explain his ideas on nihilism, the way these ideas were received in the 20th century, and, ultimately, what these ideas should mean to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche was not just a philosopher; he was a composer. This ground-breaking volume explores the connection between his thought and his music, analyzing his radical compositions and tracing his influence on genres from classical composers to heavy metal.
W. K. Clifford’s essay “The Ethics of Belief” argued it is wrong to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. This book examines the essay’s context, its clash with critics like William James, its influence on thinkers like Bertrand Russell, and its relevance today.
This monograph is a seminal contribution to applied and clinical logotherapy and existential analysis which draws on Dr Viktor Frankl’s Viennese School of philosophical psychology, from therapeutic techniques, to the mass neurotic triad of aggression, addiction, and depression.
This book celebrates Sartre’s polyvalence with an examination of his philosophy, literature, and politics. Twelve scholars explore his thought on the body, time, and ideology, and narrate a neglected visit to Japan, making a strong case for his relevance today.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
Is another world war inevitable? Yes, if we continue to think in “either/or” terms that lead to war or peace with no middle ground. This book reveals “both/and” thinking, a way to resolve paradox and find novel solutions beyond simple conflict.
