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Michael Smith Is that all there is? article I take issue with two suggestions of Joel Feinberg’s: first, that it is incoherent to suppose that human life as such is absurd and, second, that a particular human life may be absurd and yet saved from being tragic by being fulfilled. I also argue that human life as such may well be absurd and I consider various responses to this.

Is that all there is?

Michael Smith

The Journal of Ethics, vol. 10, no. 1, 2006, pp. 75–106

Abstract

I take issue with two suggestions of Joel Feinberg’s: first, that it is incoherent to suppose that human life as such is absurd and, second, that a particular human life may be absurd and yet saved from being tragic by being fulfilled. I also argue that human life as such may well be absurd and I consider various responses to this.

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