TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: The Origins of My Search for Meaning

Introduction: The Problem of Life 

Part 1 – Life and Meaning

1. Meaning of Life Versus Meaning in Life 
2. What Do We Mean by Meaning?
3. Should We Ask About Meaning?

Part 2 – Religion and Meaning

4. Western Religions: Are They True?
5. Western Religions: Are They Good?
6. Western Religions: Do They Reveal Meaning?
7. Eastern Religions and Meaning in Life

Part 3 – Philosophy, Science, and Meaning

     8. Western Philosophy and Meaning in Life
     9. Science and Meaning in Life
    10. Is Meaning in Life Enough? 

Part 4 – Death and Meaning 

11. Is There A Heaven?
12. Death is Bad
13. Individual Death and Meaning
14. Cosmic Death and Meaning
15. Scientific Immortality: Individual and Cosmic

Part 5 – Transhumanism and Meaning  

16. A Fully Meaningful Cosmos
17. Transhumanism and Fully Meaningful Cosmos
18. Transhumanism and Religion
19. Cosmic Evolution and the Meaning of Life
20. The Meaning of Life

Part 6 – Skepticism and Meaning

     21. Skepticism and Meaning
     22. Back to Nihilism

Part 7 – Optimism and Hope

     23. Attitudinal Optimism
     24. Attitudinal Hope
     25. Wishful Hope

Part 8 – Hope and Meaning

     26. What I Hope For
     27. The Source of Hope
     28. Ignorance as a Justification of Hope
     29.Hope and Meaning
     30. Losing Hope
     31. What Hope Recommends
     32. Is Hope Enough?

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