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This book is an invitation to step outside the flow of life for a time, to reflect on things normally taken for granted - life and death, love and sex, morality and religion, art and science - and to gain a degree of understanding of the full meaning of our humanity.

It is written in a lively, non-technical and discursive style to engage a general audience that is drawn to philosophy, to throw light on fundamental questions of life and how it should be lived.

Dialogues, philosophical stories, thought experiments, illustrations and literary and dramatic works are employed to make this book a highly accessible introduction. This way of doing philosophy offers a pleasurable experience for those who are encountering philosophy seriously for the first time in their life.

Primarily written as an undergraduate textbook, Meaning of Life can also be adopted in secondary schools. It provides lessons in moral reasoning, conceptual analysis and philosophical evaluation of the good life in both the West and the East, from Aristotelian and Christian to Confucian and Daoist traditions.

Meaning of Life shows how philosophy can make a difference to our understanding of life and meaning, and is an indispensable part of the good life itself.