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Addressing the question of what makes life meaningful, Jerome Eckstein explores the ways in which we can heighten or diminish the quality of our life experience. He focuses on two contrasting attitudes toward life experiences: "interested" (goal-oriented) and "intraested" (non-goal-oriented, i.e., something directed only at itself) and shows that both attitudes are important and necessary in order to make life meaningful. Philosophy, psychology, religion, myth, poetry, and music are all brought to bear on such specific life-meaning issues as work, play, love, art, neurosis, and happiness, and in a touching epilogue, Eckstein discusses his own life meanings in terms of metaphysical loneliness, laughter, and dignity.
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Mental Health & Wellbeing
158
On
Meanings
of
Life
Chapter
6.
Epilogue
1.
See
chap.
5,
n.
26.
2.
Elie
Wiesel,
Souls
on
Fire
,
trans.
Marion
Wiesel
(New
York:
Random
House,
1972),
pp.
198–199.
3.
Justus
Buchler
focuses
on
the
ultimacy
of
complexness
throughout
his
Metaphysics
of
Natural
Complexes
(New
York:
Co-
lumbia
University
Press,
1966).
4.
Wiesel,
pp.
198–199.
5.
Rainer
Maria
Rilke,
Duino
Elegies
,
trans.
David
Young
(New
York:
W.
W.
Norton,
1978),
p.
10.
6.
Emanuel
Rackman,
One
Man’s
Judaism
(New
York:
Philo-
sophical
Library,
1973),
p.
149.
7.
For
instance,
Joseph
B.
Soloveitchik,
agreeing
with
the
Psalmist,
writes:
“.
.
.
dignity
was
equated
by
the
Psalmist
with
man’s
capability
of
dominating
his
environment
and
exercising
control
over
it”
(
The
Lonely
Man
of
Faith
[New
York:
Doubleday,
1992],
p.
15).
8.
For
instance,
Abraham
J.
Heschel
writes:
In
the
tempestuous
ocean
of
time
and
toil
there
are
islands
of
stillness
where
man
may
enter
a
harbor
and
reclaim
his
dignity.
The
island
is
the
seventh
day,
the
Sabbath,
a
day
of
detachment
from
things,
instruments
and
practical
af-
fairs
as
well
as
attachment
to
the
spirit.
(
The
Sabbath
,
7th
printing
[New
York:
Farrar,
Straus
and
Giroux,
1981],
p.
29).
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