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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: meaning of life
    sub title: perspectives from the world's great intellectual traditions
  name:
    name part: Garfield, Jay L.
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Teaching Company
  type of resource: sound recording-nonmusical
  genre: Audiobooks.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: sound disc
    extent: 18 sound discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
  table of contents: Volume 1 of 3. The meaning of the meaning of life -- The Bhagavad-Gītā: choice and daily life -- The Bhagavad-Gītā: discipline and duty -- The Bhagavad-Gītā: union and purpose -- Aristotle on life: the big picture -- Aristotle: the highest good -- Aristotle: the happy life -- Job's predicament: life is so unfair -- Job's challenge: who are we? -- Stoicism: rationality and acceptance -- Human finitude: the Epicurean Synthesis -- Confucius: order in the cosmos and in life.
  table of contents: Volume 2 of 3. Daodejing: the Dao of life and spontaneity -- Daodejing: the best life is a simple life -- Daodejing: subtlety and paradox -- Zhuangzi on Daoism: impermanence and harmony -- The teachings of the Buddha -- Śāntideva: Mahāyāna Buddhism -- Śāntideva: transforming the mind -- Zen: the moon in a dewdrop and impermanence -- Zen: being-time and primordial awakening -- Taking stock of the classical world -- Hume's skepticism and the place of God -- Hume's careless and compassionate vision.
  table of contents: Volume 3 of 3. Kant: immaturity and the challenge to know -- Mill's call to individuality and to liberty -- Tolstoy: is everyday life the real thing? -- Nietzsche: Twilight of the idols -- Nietzsche: achieving authenticity -- Gandhi: Satyāgraha and holding fast to truth -- Gandhi: the call to a supernormal life -- Lame Deer: life enfolded in symbols -- Lame Deer: our place in a symbolic world -- HH Dalai Lama XIV: a modern Buddhist view -- HH Dalai Lama XIV: discernment and happiness -- So, what is the meaning of life?
  note: Jay L. Garfield.
  note: Compact discs.
  note: "Philosophy & Intellectual history"--Container.
  note: Lectures run approx. 30 min. ea.
  note: Accompanying guidebook contains glossary, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
  note: Sound recording.
  note: Jay L. Garfield, lecturer.
  subject:
    topic: Life
  subject:
    topic: Life
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Ontology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: 128
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Great courses (Compact disc)
  identifier: 9781598037180
  identifier: 1598037188
  identifier: IC4320A Teaching Company
  record info:
    record content source: IHV
    record creation date: 110325
    record change date: 20151202121043.0
    record identifier: in00002665300