Recent Work on the Meaning of Life

Metz, Thaddeus

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“…The goal is to ascertain whether eliminativism prevents particular answers to the substantial question, namely to the question of what makes a life meaningful. To begin with, following a standard classification (see Metz 2002, 2007and Hosseini 2015, let us distinguish between two views about the source of the meaning of life: supernaturalism and naturalism. Both views are realist since they take for granted that lives of certain individuals are, or can be, genuinely meaningful.…”

Section: Supernaturalist Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They merely disagree on the source of this meaning. According to supernaturalism, the meaning of life is to be found, at least partially, outside of the natural world in a monotheistic god and, or immortal souls 15 (Metz 2002(Metz , 2007. According to naturalism, by contrast, the meaning of life finds its source in the natural world.…”

Section: Supernaturalist Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The No-Self View and the Meaning of Life

Bihan¹

2018

Philosophy East and West

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Section: Supernaturalist Approachesmentioning

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Section: Supernaturalist Approachesmentioning

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The No-Self View and the Meaning of Life

Bihan¹

2018

Philosophy East and West

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“…It is clear there are no absolute answers when it comes to the meaningful life, and that there is more confusion than ever with what is considered a meaningful life (Metz, 2001(Metz, , 2002. Most scholars agree that a meaningful life is determined by how the individual subjectively experiences his or her "puzzle of life," and therefore makes sense of his or her life.…”

Section: The Meaning Through Work Narrativementioning

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Forecasting Stock Exchange Opening with Foreign Stock Markets: Evidence from the NYSE and the SSE

Ye¹

2011

SSRN Journal

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AcknowledgementsThere is a great deal of work to coordinate and administer all of the activities of the Atlantic Schools of Business Conference. In particular, the coordination of activities from the call for papers to the acceptance process is very extensive. We would like to thank the many people involved to help us with this central aspect of the conference. Thanks to Ms. Amanda Strongman who took on the initiative and perseverance to automate the paper submission process using Easy Chair this year. The use of this tool provided many insights from an organizing perspective that were invaluable. We would also like to thank the track chairs (see next section for a track chair list) who provided timely and helpful feedback about how to improve the process and managed the review process for the papers submitted to their tracks. Their commitment to getting reviews for all papers and providing feedback to authors involved an immense amount of work which we are thankful they took on. Finally, we would like to thank all the reviewers who took the time to review papers in their area of expertise and offer constructive feedback to authors to help improve their work. This process relies on volunteers from across the region. We are grateful that the spirit of academic development and achievement is alive and well! Your contributions in this area make the ASB conference possible! Sincerely, Wendy R. Carroll Conference Chair Atlantic Schools of Business Executive Stream PageAccounting 1 Business Communications 13 Business History 50Finance 84 Human Resources and Industrial Relations 197 Information Systems 258 Management Education 307Marketing 323 Organizational Theory 384Strategy 430 ASB Conference 2011 Proceedings Accounting StreamUniversity of PEI IntroductionCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has received growing attention in the last several decades. Its impact dramatically reached the top echelons of the United Nations when UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed The Global Compact at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 1999 (Bitanga and Bridwell, 2010). The Global Compact has grown to encompass more than 8,700 corporate participants and others stakeholders, including over 7,700 businesses in 130 countries around the world (United Nations Global Compact, 2011a).The UN Global Compact is a voluntary initiative that relies on public accountability, transparency, and enlightened corporate self-interest. The basic idea is that the voluntary involvement of companies in the areas of human rights, labor rights, environmental degradation, and anti-corruption can encourage private innovation and concern within these areas in a manner that regulation has been unable to adequately achieve, thereby hastening the emergence of a more sustainable and just future (Kell and Levin, 2002).The benefits for companies voluntarily affiliating with the UN Global Compact have been little documented from an empirical perspective. A survey by Cetindamar and Husoy (2007) documented the motivations of some firms for adherin...

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“…Existentialist philosophy argues that the fulfillment of human existence can be achieved by experiencing "real" meaning (Klemke, 2000;Metz, 2002). According to Frankl (1984), engagement, agency, and self-direction are functions of meaning, and people have innate will to find it.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%