{"product_id":"9781474212540","title":"God and The Meanings of Life : What God Could and Couldn't do to Make Our Lives More Meaningful","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGod and The Meanings of Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): T. J. Mawson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly even evacuate our lives of all meaning. Some philosophers, by contrast, have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is a God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod and the Meanings of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is interested in exploring the truth in both these schools of thought, seeking to discover what God could and couldn't do to make life meaningful (as well as what he would and wouldn't do). Mawson espouses a version of the 'amalgam' or 'pluralism' thesis about the issue of life's meaning – in essence, that there are a number of different legitimate meanings of 'meaning' (and indeed 'life') in the question of life's meaning. According to Mawson, God, were he to exist, would help make life meaningful in some of these senses and hinder in some others. He argues that whilst there could be meaning in a Godless universe, there could be other sorts of meaning in a Godly one and that these would be deeper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“The last twenty-five years or so have witnessed a remarkable renaissance of interest among a minority of analytical philosophers in the question of the meaning of life, and this monograph provides a substantial contribution to that discussion … This is an important contribution to the current debate and my hope is that it will be widely read and receive the detailed engagement it merits.” – \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781474212540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40597609873614,"sku":"9781474212540","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_9a936a64-536d-4347-811b-85a0d000dde9.jpg?v=1637884609","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781474212540","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}