Existence, Meaning, Excellence: Aristotelian Reflections on the Meaning of Life

ISBN-13: 9780367229788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str.

Andrius Bielskis

Opis

This book addresses the question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teleology.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements 1. European Modernity in the Light of the History of the Entropy of Meaning: A Philosophical Analysis 2. A Philosophical Critique of Existentialism  3. A Revival of Aristotelian Practical Philosophy: The Case of Alasdair MacIntyre – Practice, Unity of Life, and Tradition 4. Existence, Meaning, Excellence 5. Art as a Structure of Meaning 6. Conclusion: Modernity Reconsidered, Index

O autorze

Andrius Bielskis is Professor of Political Philosophy at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, and Professor of Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. He is the author of Towards a Postmodern Understanding of the Political: from Genealogy to Hermeneutics and co-editor of Virtue and Economy: Essays on Morality and Markets and Debating with the Lithuanian New Left: Terry Eagleton, Joel Bakan, Alex Demirovic, Urlich Brand.