Understanding Human Conduct - The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life

Understanding Human Conduct: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life presents a new and provocative model of life-meaning. The Consciousness-Meaning (CM) model is founded on two major assumptions: (a) consciousness is a necessary condition for meaning and understanding, and (b) there are two types of life-meaning, innate and acquired. The latter is divided into ordinary and extreme meanings. The CM model successfully deals with human behavior (e.g., crisis of life and suicide) as well as alternative approaches based on philosophy (e.g., existentialism) and science (e.g., evolution).

List of contents

Chapter 1: On the Relationship between Worldview and Life-Meaning
Chapter 2: An Infinite Universe that is Indifferent to and Independent of Humans and Their
Actions
Chapter 3: The Consciousness-Meaning (CM) Model: Conceptual Infrastructure
Chapter 4: An Explanation of Consciousness Has Yet to be Found
Chapter 5: Explaining Life-Meaning, Absurdity, And Suicide
Chapter 6: Philosophical and Explanatory Status of Life-Meaning, Absurdity, and Suicide
Chapter 7: The Concept of Life-Meaning is Explanatory and Explained
Chapter 8: Discussion: Comparison of The CM Model with Other Approaches to the Problem
of Life-Meaning

About the author

By Sam S. Rakover

Summary

Understanding Human Conduct: The Innate and Acquired Meaning of Life develops the Consciousness-Meaning (CM) model, which aims to explain why most human beings are able to lead a meaningful life without undergoing an existentialist life crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Sam S. Rakover, Rakover Sam S.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781793632401
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-240-1
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social, group or collective psychology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism