- 199 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Understanding Human Conduct: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life presents a new and provocative model of life-meaning. The Consciousness-Meaning (CM) model is founded on two major assumptions: (a) consciousness is a necessary condition for meaning and understanding, and (b) there are two types of life-meaning, innate and acquired. The latter is divided into ordinary and extreme meanings. The CM model successfully deals with human behavior (e.g., crisis of life and suicide) as well as alternative approaches based on philosophy (e.g., existentialism) and science (e.g., evolution).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface: Consciousness and Significance: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: On the Relationship between Worldview and Life-Meaning
- Chapter 2: An Infinite Universe That Is Indifferent to and Independent of Humans and Their Actions
- Chapter 3: The Consciousness-Meaning Model: Conceptual Infrastructure
- Chapter 4: An Explanation of Consciousness Has Yet to Be Found
- Chapter 5: Explaining Life-Meaning, Absurdity, and Suicide
- Chapter 6: Philosophical and Explanatory Status of Life-Meaning, Absurdity, and Suicide
- Chapter 7: The Concept of Life-Meaning Is Explanatory and Explained
- Chapter 8: Discussion: Comparison of the CM Model with Other Approaches to the Problem of Life-Meaning
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- About the Author