The Will to Live: A Systematic Guide to our Reasons for Living

The will to live makes life worth living. It keeps us going when the going gets tough. It is the inner strength we summon up when we really need it. This book offers a systematic guide to the principal reasons why we live and why we are here. It contains a wide range of possible answers to the question ‘What are we here for?’ A list of 36 answers is arranged and analysed systematically. We all face the problem of living and of making the most of our lives. The more answers we consider, the more we can see the possibilities of life and living. Thus, the aim is to bolster the will to live and build up the inner strength needed to combat the self-deprecatory and suicidal responses to life to which we are all prone if we lapse into a negative frame of mind.

Alistair J. Sinclair graduated Ph.D. at Glasgow University in 1998 for a thesis on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment. He has published eight books including The Answers Lie Within Us (Ashgate Publishing, 1998), What is Philosophy (Dunedin Academic Press, 2008), and Belief Beyond Belief: Looking to the Better Future (Almostic Publications, 2017). He has also published a number of e-books on Amazon Kindle. These include an important work on the subject to time entitled From Time to Eternity: An Essay on the Meaning of Time (2013). His main research interest at present lies in the philosophy of dualism which is the subject of his book, The Promise of Dualism: A Introduction to Dualist Theory (2016). He is currently establishing a Centre for Dualist Studies of which he is the director.