Absurdity, Transcendence, and the Architecture of a Life Worth LivingBy William Gomes
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Contours of Meaning offers a sustained philosophical reconstruction of the question that refuses to disappear: what makes a human life genuinely meaningful?
Engaging existential confrontation, moral fragmentation, secular theories of value, and comparative traditions of transcendence, this work develops an integrated account of human flourishing grounded in agency, community, virtue, and reflective depth.
Rather than retreating into relativism or dogma, the book examines absurdity, suffering, mortality, and the limits of moral theory with analytical clarity and historical awareness. It proposes a structured vision of meaning that reconciles action and contemplation, individuality and tradition, finitude and aspiration.
This is a systematic philosophical inquiry for listeners seeking intellectual seriousness and conceptual coherence in an age of ethical uncertainty.