Meaning in Life / Sinn im Leben
An Ethical Theory
What motivates people to get up and go to work day after day? Why do we place importance on spending a lot of time with our partner, family or friends? How do we explain the fact that people sacrifice some of their time to support others such as by volunteering? These and other questions are currently being discussed in ethics as part of the topic »Meaning in Life«. Philosopher Markus Rüther draws on international discussions and makes the topic the subject of comprehensive...
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What motivates people to get up and go to work day after day? Why do we place importance on spending a lot of time with our partner, family or friends? How do we explain the fact that people sacrifice some of their time to support others such as by volunteering? These and other questions are currently being discussed in ethics as part of the topic »Meaning in Life«. Philosopher Markus Rüther draws on international discussions and makes the topic the subject of comprehensive reflection in German for the first time. He develops an innovative and original theory of meaning that, in its differentiation and persuasiveness, goes beyond what has been offered so far.
2023, 286 pages
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Markus Rüther
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Markus Rüther, PhD, studied in Münster, Oxford and Harvard, among other places. He is a permanent researcher at the Jülich Research Centre and an associate professor of ethics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He has published more than fifty articles in international journals. He is also the editor of the Journal of Ethics and Moral Philosophy. In 2016, he received the Annual Prize for Philosophy and Ethics from the German Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Neurology (DGPPN).
Markus Rüther
Author
Markus Rüther, PhD, studied in Münster, Oxford and Harvard, among other places. He is a permanent researcher at the Jülich Research...
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