On Meanings of Life
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On Meanings of Life

Their Nature and Origin

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On Meanings of Life

Their Nature and Origin

About this book

Explores the factors that make for a meaningful life.

Addressing the question of what makes life meaningful, Jerome Eckstein explores the ways in which we can heighten or diminish the quality of our life experience. He focuses on two contrasting attitudes toward life experiences: "interested" (goal-oriented) and "intraested" (non-goal-oriented, i.e., something directed only at itself) and shows that both attitudes are important and necessary in order to make life meaningful. Philosophy, psychology, religion, myth, poetry, and music are all brought to bear on such specific life-meaning issues as work, play, love, art, neurosis, and happiness, and in a touching epilogue, Eckstein discusses his own life meanings in terms of metaphysical loneliness, laughter, and dignity.

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On 
Meanings 
of 
Life
Chapter 
6.
Epilogue
1.
See 
chap. 
5, 
n. 
26.
2.
Elie 
Wiesel, 
Souls 
on 
Fire
, 
trans. 
Marion 
Wiesel 
(New
York: 
Random 
House, 
1972), 
pp. 
198–199.
3.
Justus 
Buchler 
focuses 
on 
the 
ultimacy 
of 
complexness
throughout 
his 
Metaphysics 
of 
Natural 
Complexes
(New 
York: 
Co-
lumbia 
University 
Press, 
1966).
4.
Wiesel, 
pp. 
198–199.
5.
Rainer 
Maria 
Rilke, 
Duino 
Elegies
, 
trans. 
David 
Young
(New 
York: 
W. 
W. 
Norton, 
1978), 
p. 
10.
6.
Emanuel 
Rackman, 
One 
Man’s 
Judaism
(New 
York: 
Philo-
sophical 
Library, 
1973), 
p. 
149.
7.
For 
instance, 
Joseph 
B. 
Soloveitchik, 
agreeing 
with 
the
Psalmist, 
writes: 
“.
.
.
dignity 
was 
equated 
by 
the 
Psalmist 
with 
man’s
capability 
of 
dominating 
his 
environment 
and 
exercising 
control
over 
it” 
(
The 
Lonely 
Man 
of 
Faith
[New 
York: 
Doubleday, 
1992],
p. 
15).
8.
For 
instance, 
Abraham 
J. 
Heschel 
writes:
In 
the 
tempestuous 
ocean 
of 
time 
and 
toil 
there 
are 
islands
of 
stillness 
where 
man 
may 
enter 
a 
harbor 
and 
reclaim 
his
dignity. 
The 
island 
is 
the 
seventh 
day, 
the 
Sabbath, 
a 
day
of 
detachment 
from 
things, 
instruments 
and 
practical 
af-
fairs 
as 
well 
as 
attachment 
to 
the 
spirit. 
(
The 
Sabbath
, 
7th
printing 
[New 
York: 
Farrar, 
Straus 
and 
Giroux, 
1981],
p. 
29).

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. Content
  3. Back Matter