Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful

by Dean Rickles

Book Overview

Why life's shortness--more than anything else--is what makes it meaningful

Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death would be like playing tennis without a net. Only constraints--and death is the ultimate constraint--make our actions meaningful. In Life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691240590
• ISBN13: 9780691240596
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"