On the Meaning of Life (Paperback)

Preface Chapter 1 The QuestionThe question that won't go awayScience and MeaningSomething rather than nothingA Religious question?Meaning after GodMan the Measure of All things?Variety, MEaning and EvaluationWhat Meaningfulness impliesMeaning and MoralityHumanity and OpenessChapter 2 The Barrier to MeaningThe VoidThe Challenge of ModernityThe Shadow of DarwinScience, Religion and MeaningEvolution and 'Blind' ForcesThe 'Nastiness' of the Evolutionary MechanismMatter and Surplus SufferingThe Character of the CosmosChapter 3 Meaning, Vulnerability and HopeMorality and AchievementFutility and FragilityReligion and the Buoyancy of the GoodVulnerability and FinitudeSpirituality and Inner ChangeDoctrine and PraxisFrom Praxis to FAithCoda: Intimations of Meaning