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The Meaning of Life Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions
2011
Features
Jay L. Garfield
Supplier
The Great Courses
In This Series

Episode 1
The Meaning of the Meaning of Life

Episode 2
The Bhagavad-Gita - Choice and Daily Life

Episode 3
The Bhagavad-Gita - Discipline and Duty

Episode 4
The Bhagavad-Gita - Union and Purpose

Episode 5
Aristotle on Life - The Big Picture

Episode 6
Aristotle - The Highest Good

Episode 7
Aristotle - The Happy Life

Episode 8
Job's Predicament - Life Is So Unfair

Episode 9
Job's Challenge - Who Are We?

Episode 10
Stoicism - Rationality and Acceptance

Episode 11
Human Finitude - The Epicurean Synthesis

Episode 12
Confucius - Order in the Cosmos and in Life

Episode 13
Daodejing - The Dao of Life and Spontaneity

Episode 14
Daodejing - The Best Life Is a Simple Life

Episode 15
Daodejing - Subtlety and Paradox

Episode 16
Zhuangzi on Daoism - Impermanence and Harmony

Episode 17
The Teachings of the Buddha

Episode 18
Santideva - Mahayana Buddhism

Episode 19
Santideva - Transforming the Mind

Episode 20
Zen - The Moon in a Dewdrop and Impermanence

Episode 21
Zen - Being-Time and Primordial Awakening

Episode 22
Taking Stock of the Classical World

Episode 23
Hume's Skepticism and the Place of God

Episode 24
Hume's Careless and Compassionate Vision

Episode 25
Kant - Immaturity and the Challenge to Know

Episode 26
Mill's Call to Individuality and to Liberty

Episode 27
Tolstoy - Is Everyday Life the Real Thing?

Episode 28
Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols

Episode 29
Nietzsche - Achieving Authenticity

Episode 30
Gandhi - Satyagraha and Holding Fast to Truth

Episode 31
Gandhi - The Call to a Supernormal Life

Episode 32
Lame Deer - Life Enfolded in Symbols

Episode 33
Lame Deer - Our Place in a Symbolic World

Episode 34
HH Dalai Lama XIV - A Modern Buddhist View

Episode 35
HH Dalai Lama XIV - Discernment and Happiness

Episode 36
So, What Is the Meaning of Life?