Life and Death Book

	Introduction
	Acknowledgments
1	"On the Aim of Life," from the Euthydemus, and "On the Practice of Death," from the Phaedo	1
2	From the Nicomachean Ethics	17
3	"I Saw Only Death," from the Confessions	22
4	"On Life," from The Divine Names	30
5	"That All Things Are Directed to One End, Which Is God," from the Summa contra Gentiles	32
6	"The Madman" and "Eternal Recurrence" from The Gay Science	57
7	"Mysticism of the Absurd," from Nausea	59
8	"Absurdity Is the Divorce between Reason and the World," from The Myth of Sisyphus and Nuptials	68
9	"Woman and the Meaning of Life," from The Second Sex	80
10	"The Absurd," from The Journal of Philosophy	86
11	"Is Life Absurd?"	98
12	"Nothing Matters"	104
13	"The Meanings of the Questions of Life," from Paradox and Discovery	112
14	"The Meaning of Life"	117
15	"On the Meaning of Life," from Philosophical Papers	127
16	"The Meaning of Life... We Can Call God," from Notebooks, 1914-1916	146
17	"The Fundamental Contradiction of Human Life" and "The Fear of Death Is Only a Confession of the Unsolved Contradiction of Life," from Life	152
18	"Detachment," from Gravity and Grace	162
19	"Fear No More...." from Cymbeline	166
	Some Suggested Further Reading	168
	Index	171