F. Steger, Yoshito Kawabata, Satoshi Shimai & Keiko Otake, “The Meaningful Life in Japan and the United States: Levels and Correlates of Meaning in Life,” Journal of Research in Personality 42, no. 3 (2008), 660–678.
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Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007). The description of the worldview of people living in the 1500s is mainly based on chapter 1 of Taylor’s book.
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Taylor, A Secular Age, 42, based on Stephen Wilson, The Magical Universe (London: Hambledon & London, 2004).
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Max Weber, The Sociology of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971).
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There is, of course, a big leap in worldviews between belief in local spirits and one omnipotent creator God, but we have no space to go through the so-called axial revolution and how that transformed our worldviews.
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett & Susan D. Collins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012).
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, no6a:i7–24.
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Telos (греч. конец, цель) – в древнегреческой философии конечная цель чего-либо; один из четырех основных принципов бытия в философии Аристотеля.
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Summum bonum (лат. высшее благо) – Цицерон в своей работе «О высшем благе и высшем зле» писал: «Мы ищем, что является предельным и последним из благ. По мнению всех философов, оно должно быть таким, чтобы все измерялось им, а само оно – ничем вне его».
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Note that Hochschild argues that this question was asked up to the twentieth century, while here I am arguing that meaning of life started to replace it in the nineteenth century. Joshua P. Hochschild, “What ‘the Meaning of Life’ Replaced,” https://thevirtuebl0g.c0m/2017/12/18/what-the-meaning-of-life-replaced/.
