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Is that all there is?

Date

Authors

Smith, Michael

Publisher

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

I take issue with two suggestions of Joel Feinberg's: first that it is incoherent to suppose that human life as such is absurd and second that a particular human life may be absurd and yet saved from being tragic by being fulfilled. I also argue that human life as such may well be absurd and I consider various responses to this.

Keywords

Keywords: Absurd; Absurdity; Albert Camus; Fulfillment; God; Godot; Good; Good for; Joel Feinberg; Justification; Pointless; Pointlessness; Self-fulfillment; Sisyphus; Thomas Nagel; Tragedy; Tragic; Value; Worth

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24664

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Ethics, The

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s10892-005-4591-9

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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