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Tato pozoruhodná kniha je napsána stylem typickým pro analytickou filozofii, ale čerpá poučení i z krásné literatury. Autor k tématu nepřistupuje pouze jako nezúčastněný filozof; z každého řádku knihy je cítit, že je to moudrý člověk, který si hledání smyslu života nejen důkladně promyslel, ale také prožil. Jeho závěry, že navzdory nedokonalosti světa, a to i nás samotných, má lidský život smysl, mohou pomoci všem, kteří smysl života hledají či se chtějí ujistit, že nežijí v přeludu a smrtelnost, utrpení, determinismus a další faktory...

In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed. "Philosophy emerges, in almost all of its parts," he concludes, "as human rather than male, and most parts and aspects of it need not be rejected or rewritten."

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...