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The meaning of life : perspectives from the world's great intellectual traditions.

Summary:

What is the meaning of life? It's a question every thoughtful person has pondered at one time or another. Indeed, it may be the biggest question of all. Professor Jay L. Garfield offer a rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of what various spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions from both the East and the West have contributed to this profound line of questioning.

Record details

ISBN: 1598037196
ISBN: 9781598037197
ISBN: 9781490654713
ISBN: 1490654712
Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teachng Co., ©2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes 36 lectures; 30 minutes per lecture; 6 lectures per disc.
Formatted Contents Note:	Disc 1. The meaning of the meaning of life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: choice and daily life ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: discipline and duty ; The Bhagavad-Gitā: union and purpose ; Aristotle on life: the big picture ; Aristotle: the highest good -- disc 2. Aristotle: the happy life ; Job's predicament: life is so unfair ; Job's challenge: who are we? ; Stoicism: rationality and acceptance ; Human finitude: the epicurean synthesis ; Confucius: order in the cosmos and in life -- disc 3. Daodejing: the Dao of life and spontaneity ; Daodejing: the best life is a simple life ; Daodejing: sublety and paradox ; Zhuangzi on Daoism: impermanence and harmony ; The teachings of the Buddha ; Śāntideva: Mahayana Buddhism -- disc 4. Śāntideva: transforming the mind ; Zen: the moon in a dewdrop and impermanence ; Zen: being-time and primordial awakening ; Taking stock of the classical world ; Hume's skepticism and the place of God ; Hume's careless and compassionate vision -- disc 5. Kant: immaturity and the challenge to know ; Mill's call to individuality and to liberty ; Tolstoy: is everyday life the real thing? ; Nietzsche: Twilight of the idiots ; Nietzsche: achieving authenticity ; Gandhi: Satyāgraha and holding fast to truth -- disc 6. Gandhi: the call to a supernormal life ; Lame Deer: life enfolded in symbols ; Lame Deer: our place in a symbolic world ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: a modern Buddhist view ; HH Dalai Lama XIV: discernment and happiness ; So, what is the meaning of life?
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Great Courses ; producer, Jennifer Gray ; director, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer, Jay L. Garfield.
System Details Note:	DVD.