The Purpose of Life: A Theistic Perspective (Paperback)

Preface

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Chapter 1: Clarifying the Question
?? What is the Meaning of Life?
?? Clarifying Questions and Answers to Them
?? Perfect Happiness
?? A Plausible Understanding of "What is the meaning of life?"
?? A Plausible Understanding of "What makes life meaningful?"
?? Euthyphro's Objection
?? A Plausible Understanding of "Is life meaningful?"
?? This World, the Afterlife, and the Soul
?? Conclusion
?? Addendum
Chapter 2: Perfect Happiness and Its Atheist Critics
?? Perfect Happiness Is Not the Meaning of Life
?? Perfect Happiness: Setting the Bar too High
?? "Why Should I Be Moral?"
?? A Section Not Strictly Necessary
?? "Why Should I Be Moral?" again
Chapter 3: Perfect Happiness and Its Theist Critics
?? The Problem of Pleasure
?? Pleasure Cannot Be Intrinsically Good: Religious Concerns
?? Pleasure Cannot Be Intrinsically Good: Philosophical Concerns
?? Is Pleasure Present in Everything We Enjoy?
?? Conclusion
Chapter 4: Purposeful Explanation and Naturalism
?? A Brief Overview
?? Looking Backward versus Looking Forward
?? The Nature of Purposeful Explanation
?? Naturalism
?? The Causal Closure Principle
?? Science Is Not the Problem
?? Survival or Pleasure: What Explains What?
?? Evolution versus Creation
?? Addendum
Chapter 5: The Problem of Evil
?? Skeptical Theism, the Purpose of Life, and the Problem of Evil
?? Choice and Life Plans
?? Life Plans and Perfect Happiness
?? A Theodicy
?? The Plausibility of My Theodicy
?? Not So Fast!
?? A Skeptical Theist Turned Theodicist
?? Justice as an Organic Unity
?? Tying Together Some Loose Ends
?? The Experience of Evil by Beasts
?? Addendum
Chapter 6: Conclusion

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Bibliography

Index

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