Reason and Meaning

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      • 1. Life & Meaning
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  • Religion
    • Philosophy of Religion
      • Arguments for God
      • The Problem of Evil
      • Arnold: Divine Plans
      • Arguing with Theists
      • Properly Basic Beliefs
      • Shrode: Presuppositionalism
      • Philosophy/Theology/Science
      • God of the Philosophers
      • Arnold: Accepting Religion
      • Arnold: Presuppositionalism
      • Are the Gods Evil?
      • Living & Religious Claims
      • Carrier: Christian Delusion
    • Science & Religion
      • Science Explains Religion
      • Einstein and Darwin
      • Science & Religion: Dialogue
      • God & Evolution
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      • Religion & Meaning Pt.1
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      • Many Worlds/Multiverse
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      • Black Holes & Truth
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      • Science & Meaning
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      • Bostrom: Superintelligence
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      • Wisdom & Avoiding the End
      • Torres: Religion & the End
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    • Death is Bad
      • Vincent Barry
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      • Roger Ebert
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      • Oliver Sacks Pt.2
      • Oliver Sacks’ Death
    • Poems
      • Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
      • Henley, “Margaritae Sorori”
      • Dickinson, “Because I could not stop for Death “
      • Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
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      • Robinson, “Richard Cory”
      • Larkin, “An Arundel Tomb”
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      • Death & Meaning
      • Death is Evil
  • Ethics
    • Introduction
      • What is Ethics?
      • Theories & Intuitions
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      • Is Ethics Objective?
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      • Noonan: “An Almost Absolute Value in History”
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    • Euthanasia
      • Worse Off Alive
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      • Williams: “The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia”
      • Brock: “Voluntary Active Euthanasia”
      • Rachels: “Active and Passive Euthanasia”
      • David Goodall’s Death
    • Biotechnology
      • Sandel: “The Case against Perfection”
      • Tooley: “Moral Status of Cloning Humans”
      • Steinbock: “The Morality of Killing Human Embryos”
      • Kass: “Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology & …”
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      • Kurt Baier
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      • Garrett Thomson
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      • Tennyson: Ulysses
    • Objectivists – Specific
      • Joseph Ellin
      • Terry Eagleton
      • Mortiz Schlick
      • Owen Flanagan
      • Victor Frankl
      • Christopher Belshaw
      • Raymond Belliotti
      • Paul Thagard
      • Thaddeus Metz
    • Religious- Less Dogmatic
      • Leo Tolstoy
      • Antony Flew
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      • Reinhold Niebuhr
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      • John Hick
    • Religious- More Dogmatic
      • Louis Pojman
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      • Michael Ruse
  • Philosophy
    • Intro. to Philosophy
      • What is Philosophy?
      • Philosophy/Science/Religion
      • Is Truth Relative?
      • Arguments for God
      • The Problem of Evil
      • The Prisoner’s Dilemma
      • Do We Live in the Matrix?
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      • Against Free Will
      • Can A Machine Think?
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      • Personal Identity
    • Critical Thinking
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      • Psychological Impediments
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      • Who Should I Believe?
      • But I Just Believe
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      • Feminism
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      • Hinduism: One Page
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      • Hindu Philosophy
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      • Taoism: Basics
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      • What Is It?
      • Marcel: Problems & Mystery
      • Marcel: Creativity & Hope
      • Nietzsche: On Nihilism
      • Unamuno: Life as Tragedy
      • Frankl: Tragic Optimism
      • Camus on Meaning
      • Sartre on Meaning
      • Camus’ “The Plague”
    • Epistemology
      • Belief & Knowledge
      • G.I. Joe Fallacy
      • Cognitive Biases
      • So Little Time
      • Piaget: Knowledge Evolves
      • On Certainty
      • Disconsolation
    • Truth
      • Why Truth Matters
      • Harry Frankfurt: On BS
      • Is Knowledge Power?
      • Walt Whitman
      • Lying & Truth
      • Monopoly on Truth
      • Does Knowledge Matter?
      • Searching for Truth
      • Truth & Falsity
      • Truth and Power
    • Skepticism
      • Against Dogmatism
      • Fallibilism
      • Belief & Skepticism
      • Skepticism & Meaning
      • Skepticism
      • Democracy & Skepticism
      • Limits of Knowledge
    • Metaphysics
      • Process Philosophers
      • Parfit: On Existence
      • What is A Worldview?
      • Naturalism
      • Meaning & Worldviews
      • Alan Watts: Who Am I?
    • Hope
      • Is Hope Bad?
      • Hope and Pandora’s Box
      • A Defense of Hope
      • A Defense of Optimism
      • Doug Muder on Hope
      • And Possibilities
      • Hope (Academic)
      • is the thing with feathers
      • And Existence
      • Against Hope
      • For Non-Believers
    • Poems
      • Tennyson, “Ulysses”
      • Emily Jane Brontë, “Life”
      • Henley, “Invictus”
      • Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
      • Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
      • Dickinson: “The Brain is wider than the Sky”
      • Larkin, “This Be The Verse”
      • Tennyson “Tears Idle Tears”
      • Longfellow “Morituri Salutamas”
      • Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
      • Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
      • Robinson, “Dear Friends”
    • Popular
      • Is Philosophy Dangerous?
      • Kahlil Gibran
      • The Serenity Prayer
      • Must Evil Exist?
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      • Adler: Truth & Justice
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      • Baggini: Logic
      • Baggini: Metaphysics
      • Baggini: Ethics
      • Baggini: Aesthetics
      • Baggini: Political Philosophy
    • Teaching
      • Daniel Gray, BA
      • 30 Years Teaching
      • Letter From Student
      • Defending Philosophy
      • Value of Philosophy
      • Philosophy & Wonder
      • Philosophy Class
      • Former Students
      • Relevance of Philosophy
      • Teacher Burnout
    • Book Reviews
      • Hägglund: Death&Meaning
      • Why Does The World Exist?
      • Outer Limits of Reason
      • Better Never to Have Been
      • Consolations of Philosophy
      • Philosophy at Midlife
      • A Thinker’s Guide…
      • Star Map
  • Philosophers
    • Ancient Philosophers
      • Presocratics
      • The Ionians
      • Heraclitus
      • Parmenides & Zeno
      • Protagoras
      • Pythagoras
      • The One and the Many
      • The Sophists
      • Epicurus
      • Plotinus
    • Socrates
      • Socrates’ Teachings
      • Socrates: Knowledge
      • Socrates: Trail And Death
    • Plato
      • Plato on Human Nature
      • Plato: Cave, Line, Sun
      • Plato: The Apology
      • Plato: Political Theory
      • Plato: Gyges’ Ring
      • Plato: Justice
    • Aristotle
      • Aristotle on Human Nature
      • Aristotle: A Good Life
      • Aristotle: Good Societies
      • Aristotle: Living Well
    • Stoics
      • On Grieving
      • Epictetus: Self-Control
      • Epictetus & Stockdale
      • Aurelius: The Meditations
      • Aurelius: Get Out Of Bed
      • Seneca: Shortness of Life
      • Cicero: On Old Age
      • On Emotions
      • Seneca: On Tranquility
      • On Happiness
    • Modern Philosophers
      • Hobbes: Politics and Ethics
      • Descartes’ Third Maxim
      • Descartes to Kant
      • Spinoza
      • Kant: Developing Talents
      • Marx: Politics
      • Schopenhauer: Pessimism
      • Schopenhauer: Hope
      • James: Once & Twice Born
    • Hume
      • Hume: Good Philosophers
      • Hume: Suicide
      • Adam Smith: Hume’s Death
    • Nikos Kazantzakis
      • Life & Thought
      • Saviors of God
      • Life’s Meaning
      • Against Hope
    • Bertrand Russell
      • Value of Philosophy
      • On Idleness
      • We Fear Thought
      • Nobel Prize Speech
      • Last Written Words
      • How To Grow Old
      • His Grandmother
      • The Will to Doubt
      • What He Believed
      • A Free Man’s Worship
    • Will Durant
      • Value of Philosophy
      • Cycle of Life
      • Words & Wisdom
      • Cultural Progress
      • Meaning in Life
      • Story of Philosophy
      • Convict 79206
      • The Past Is Alive
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    • Work
      • Monotony
      • What We Want
      • Rethinking Work
      • Meaningful Work
      • Friends & Work
      • Fulfilling Work
      • Money
      • Work/Life Balance
      • Overworked
      • Do What You Love?
      • Working for Tech Giants
    • Music
      • Suzuki & Schubert
      • Ode to Joy
      • Dan Fogelberg
      • River of Souls
      • Pawn in the Game
      • Political Parody
      • Darrell Arnold
      • Philosophical Videos
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    • Music-About Time
      • About Time
      • About Time Pt.2
      • Closing Time
      • All Things Pass
      • The Living Years
      • Oh Very Young
      • Fogelberg: In The Passage
    • Time
      • Nostalgia
      • Life is Brief
      • Life is Fleeting
      • How To Spend It?
      • Experiencing Time
      • Past & Future
      • F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • Love
      • What is Love?
      • Types of Love
      • And Death
      • Jane Austen
      • Love & Pain
      • 50th Anniversary
      • The Art of Loving
      • Marriage
      • Monogamy
    • Happiness
      • Best Countries
      • Happiness Equations
      • Harvard Study
      • Predicting
      • Relationships
      • Relationship Scale
      • Nature
      • And Meaning
      • Walking in Nature
      • Solitude
      • Are We Ever at Home?
    • COVID-19
      • All in it Together
      • Government Response
      • Whose Credibile?
      • Bad Arguments
      • Assessing Claims
      • Argument from Authority
      • Rejected WHO Tests
      • Argument Against Expertise
      • Death Analogies
      • Trump’s “Expertise”
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    • Health
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      • Whose Fault?
      • A Poem
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      • And Truth
    • Movies
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      • Planet of the Humans
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      • Where To Invade
      • Life Itself-Roger Ebert
      • Food Chain
      • Command&Control
      • The Holocaust
      • Trump’s Showdown
    • Writing
      • How To Write Well
      • Why Write?
      • About Writing
      • Writing To Learn
      • Examples of Great Writing
      • Faulkner: Nobel Speech
      • Evans: Writing Well Matters
    • Psychology
      • Gerotranscendence
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      • David Foster Wallace
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    • Freedom
      • Hand: Freedom & Power
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      • Hand: Freedom & Govt. Part2
      • Hand: Freedom&Politics Pt.1
      • Hand: Freedom&Politics P.t2
      • Hand: Freedom & Humanity
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      • Confederate Statues
      • Defending Steven Pinker
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      • Bill McKibben: Falter
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