The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations - Hardcover

Nozick, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671472186 ISBN 13: 9780671472184

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1989

Synopsis

The author states that by examining his understanding of dying, sex, love, the Holocaust, politics, and other topics, they bring forth ideas, questions, and statements, and that the subjects automatically project into the mind

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About the Author

Robert Nozick (1938-2002) is the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, which won a National Book Award in 1975, Philosophical Explanations, which received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa in 1982, and The Examined Life. He was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

From Library Journal

Nozick here offers an illuminating discussion of such topics as death, sexuality, and friendship--concerns that everyone has but that have not often been discussed by analytic philosophers, among whom Nozick holds eminent rank. His consideration of broader questions--e.g., what is the nature of value?--leads him to extend the theory of value he developed in Philosophical Explanations ( LJ 11/1/81), and he unifies a wide range of phenomena that previous philosophers have been unable to connect as tightly. He also addresses theological concerns, throwing unexpected light on such topics as the nature of God and the problem of evil. Chapter 25, "The Zig-Zag of Politics," will without doubt rivet political philosophers, for here Nozick recants in part the libertarianism he supported in Anarchy, State, and Utopia ( LJ 1/15/75). This strikingly original book will arouse much discussion. Highly recommended.
- David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671472186
• ISBN 13: 9780671472184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320