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100 1 $aFlanagan, Owen J.
245 14 $aThe really hard problem :$bmeaning in a material world /$cOwen Flanagan.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $axiii, 288 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Bradford book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tMeaningful and Enchanted Lives: A Threat from the Human Sciences? -- $g2.$tFinding Meaning in the Natural World: The Comparative Consensus -- $g3.$tScience for Monks: Buddhism and Science -- $g4.$tNormative Mind Science? Psychology, Neuroscience, and the Good Life -- $g5.$tNeuroscience, Happiness, and Positive Illusions -- $g6.$tSpirituality Naturalized? "A Strong Cat without Claws"
520 1 $a"If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science - explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity - then "the really hard problem," Owen Flanagan wrties in this book, is explaining how meaning is possible in the material world. How can we make sense of the magic and mystery of life naturalistically, without an appeal to the supernatural? How do we say truthful and enchanting things about being human if we accept the fact that we are finite material beings living in a material world, or, in Flanagan's words, short-lived pieces of organized muscle and tissue?" "Flanagan's answer is both naturalistic and enchanting. We all wish to live in meaningful way, to live a life that really matters, to flourish, to achieve eudaimonia - to be a "happy spirit." Flanagan calls his "empirical-normative" inquiry into the nature, causes, and conditions of human flourishing eudaimonics. Eudaimonics, systematic philosophical investigation that is continuous with science, is the naturalist's response to those who say that science has robbed the world of the meaning that fantastical, wishful stories once provided." "Flanagan draws on philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and psychology, as well as on transformative mindfulness and self-cultivation practices that come from such nontheistic spiritual traditions as Buddhism, Confucianism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicim. He gathers from these disciplines knowledge that will help us to understand the nature, the causes, and the constituents of well-being and to advance human flourishing. Eudaimonics can help us find out how to make a difference, how to contribute to the accumulation of good effects - how to live a meaningful life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMeaning (Philosophy)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082692
650 0 $aCognitive psychology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007652
650 0 $aMaterialism$xPsychological aspects.
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