A Meaning to Life

by Michael Ruse

Book Overview

Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit. Ever since, with the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190933224
• ISBN13: 9780190933227
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.1"