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  title info:
    title: Embodiment and the meaning of life
  name:
    name part: Noonan, Jeff.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life, Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labor upon ourselves, others and the world. Meaningful labor is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.
  table of contents: Do suffering and death prove that life is not worth living? -- If life is worth living, is it worth living forever? -- Time as extrinsic limit and matrix of freedom -- Frames of finitude and non-alienated labour I : dependence, disease, and old age -- Frames of finitude and non-alienated labour II : relationships, life-projects, and risk -- Death and the ethical wholeness of life -- Conclusion : tragedy and life-value.
  note: Jeff Noonan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / General
  subject:
    topic: Life
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Suffering
  subject:
    topic: Death
  classification: 128
  identifier: 0773553487
  identifier: 9780773553484
  identifier: 0773553495
  identifier: 9780773553491
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 171124
    record change date: 20180718085848.0
    record identifier: in00004016432
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng