Living Philosophy : Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality

In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays, Christopher Hamilton reflects on the mystery of life and our quest to understand it.

The mystery of birth and death, of fate and destiny, of the nature of wisdom, and of the meaning of life itself have preoccupied philosophers since time immemorial.Some of the perplexities of our moral life form the basis of Christopher Hamilton''s book. In a series of original and perceptive philosophical essays - including those on ''Birth and Death'', ''Virtue and Human Flourishing'', ''The Need to Sleep'', ''Sex'', ''Truth and Reality'', ''Vanity and Destiny'' and ''The Fear of Death''- the author reflects on the nature of morality and its relation to experience; on the individual mind and its place in philosophy; and on the strangeness of life itself.Drawing widely on literature and philosophy, and grouping many of its reflections on thoughts found there - from Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, from Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, George Eliot, Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, D H Lawrence and others - Living Philosophy has some affinities with the philosophy practised by such figures as Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Cavell and Peter