The Study of the Meaning of Life

Based on the revelation and analysis of the social self-consciousness contained in the individual self-consciousness of the meaning of life, the book discusses the human life-world, spiritual world, cultural world and meaning-world. Then, it states the life-world, modes of thought, values ideas, aesthetic consciousness and ultimate concerns of modern humans. It also systematically expounds on the cultivation, the truth, the nurture, the sublimation, the support, the tension and the source of the spiritual home in perspectives of education, science, art, philosophy, theory, mentality and ideals. Constructing a fulfilling spiritual home for man is the realistic meaning of this book.

Auteur

Sun Zhengyu (b. 1946) is a distinguished professor of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Jilin University and the director of Center for Fundamentals of Philosophy, which is one of the Key Centers of Humanities and Social Sciences under the Ministry of Education; a member of 'the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth CPPCC National Committee', 'Advisory Committee of the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Experts', 'Social Sciences Commission of the Ministry of Education'; and served as the director of the Education Committee of philosophy of the Ministry of Education, chairman of the philosophy society of Jilin Province, and director of the academic committee of Jilin University.