Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2010
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/656501
Abstract
The book comprises the two Tanner Lectures given by Susan Wolf at Princeton in 2007; helpful comments by John Koethe, Robert M. Adams, Nomy Arpaly, and Jonathan Haidt;Wolf ’s replies; and a brief introduction by Stephen Macedo. Wolf writes elegantly and thoughtfully, and the book, which seems to preserve in length and style its origins as two lectures, is full of sensible, suggestive ideas. The Tanner Lectures are meant to reach a nonspecialist audience, and some specialist readers may wish to have more on less, a desire likely to affect especially those who, like myself, share Wolf ’s basic approach to these matters.
Disciplines
Law | Law and Philosophy | Philosophy
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Recommended Citation
Joseph Raz,
Susan Wolf on the Meaning of Life: A Review,
121
Ethics
232
(2010).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3460
Comments
© 2010 by The University of Chicago.
The Meaning of Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf, Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 160, $24.95.