دانلود کتاب The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question

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Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nPrelude\nChapter 1: The worst of all possible worlds\n The misery of life\n The world as a problem\n The true nature of the world\n Making sense of the world\n Temporal immortality\n How not to be: The negation of the will\n Life’s true purpose\nChapter 2: The despair of not being oneself\n The aesthetic mode of life\n The ethical mode of life\n The religious mode of life\n Despair and the sickness unto death\n Learning to be silent\nChapter 3: The interlinked terrors and wonders of God: Herman Melville (1819–1891)\n The ungraspable phantom of life\n No hearts above the snow line\n The tiger heart that pants beneath the ocean’s skin\n That beautiful creature, the rattlesnake\n Like a true child of fire\n Playing the fool in a sensible way\nChapter 4: The hell of no longer being able to love: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)\n Nothing matters\n Of lice and men\n Two times two makes five\n Corpses everywhere\n So many beautiful things\n Spiders in all the corners\nChapter 5: The inevitable end of everything: Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)\n How to live?\n The dragon of death, waiting to tear us to pieces\n Looking for a way out\n Faith\n The fragility of meaning\n Two kinds of love\nChapter 6: The joy of living dangerously\n The last human and the superhuman\n Beyond good and evil\n The morality of pity and the value of suffering\n Sacred, healthy selfishness\n All good things laugh: Against the spirit of heaviness\n Death and eternal recurrence\nChapter 7: The dramatic richness of the concrete world\n Making a difference\n The rapture of bones under hedges\n The healthy-minded and the sick souls\n From midnight to daylight\n The right to believe\n The atrocious harmlessness of things\nChapter 8: The only life that is really lived\n The terrible deception of love\n The paradox of desire\n The constant dying of the self\n Stepping into the same river twice\n Explorers of the unseen\n Placed beyond time\nChapter 9: Our hopeless battle against the boundaries of language: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)\n The nature and use of philosophy\n The riddle of life and its dissolution\n An alien in the world\n Ethics as an enquiry into the meaning of life\n Language as a toolbox\n The things we cannot doubt\nChapter 10: The benign indifference of the world\n The absurd\n Freedom\n So what?\n Defending life\n Rebellion and solidarity\n Death and limits\nPostlude\nNotes\n Chapter 1\n Chapter 2\n Chapter 3\n Chapter 4\n Chapter 5\n Chapter 6\n Chapter 7\n Chapter 8\n Chapter 9\n Chapter 10\nSources\n Chapter 1: The worst of all possible worlds: Arthur Schopenhauer\n Chapter 2: The despair of not being oneself: Søren Kierkegaard\n Chapter 3: The interlinked terrors and wonders of god: Herman Melville\n Chapter 4: The hell of no longer being able to love: Fyodor Dostoyevsky\n Chapter 5: The inevitable end of everything: Leo Tolstoy\n Chapter 6: The joy of living dangerously: Friedrich Nietzsche\n Chapter 7: The dramatic richness of the concrete world: William James\n Chapter 8: The only life that is really lived: Marcel Proust\n Chapter 9: Our hopeless battle against the boundaries of language: Ludwig Wittgenstein\n Chapter 10: The benign indifference of the world: Albert Camus