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Thomas Nagel on the ‘meaning of life’: a dialogue with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378669540

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Nagel, Meaning of life, Absurd

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Continuing the discussions started in “The ‘meaning of life’ in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche”, this paper analyzes the way in which the problem of the “meaning of life” is treated by contemporary philosophy, taking as reference above all the thought of an author little debated in Brazil: Thomas Nagel. It begins with a brief review of the theme in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (1); the extent to which it has emerged only in recent decades as a concern of contemporary English-speaking philosophy is indicated (2); it analyzes how Nagel deals with the same in his thought, especially in the work The View from Nowhere(3); we conclude by comparing the positions of Nagel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (4).

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Wander Andrade De Paula, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES

Professor Adjunto do Departamento de Filosofia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). Possui Doutorado, Mestrado e Graduação (Bacharelado e Licenciatura) em Filosofia pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Estágio de pesquisa, no Doutorado, realizado na Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Alemanha). Projetos de Pós-Doutorado em Filosofia desenvolvidos na Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) [com estágio na Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Holanda)]; e na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Membro do GT Genealogia e Crítica, da ANPOF. Ênfase e interesses de pesquisa: História da Filosofia; História da Filosofia Contemporânea; Filosofia Alemã do Séc. XIX, especialmente Arthur Schopenhauer e Friedrich Nietzsche; Desdobramentos e Interpretações de Schopenhauer e Nietzsche no pensamento contemporâneo, sobretudo na psicanálise. 

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De Paula, W. A. (2023). Thomas Nagel on the ‘meaning of life’: a dialogue with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 13(2), e1. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378669540

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022): Schopenhauerian Studies - Ed. 31

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Schopenhauerian Studies

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