What Does It All Mean? A humanistic account of human experience William A. Adams 250 pages £30.00/$59.90 ISBN 1845400208 (cloth) April 2005 £14.95/$29.90 ISBN 9781845401016 (paperback) May 2007 Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk Purchase your copy

As a young man Bill Adams travelled the world teaching US citizens abroad on behalf of a large state university on the East Coast. Back home he reflected that if there were answers to the great questions of life, then he’d not found them — not in India, in Europe, in China, or Japan. In time he came to see that his lifelong interest in how the mind works could be the clue to the meaning of life. Socrates had been right all along: Know thyself. Adams now sets out a new reasoned argument, based on his experience as a cognitive psychologist and as a human being, to show why Socrates was right: the purpose of life is to recognize ourselves — in each other and in all things. The mind is looking for itself: that is how it works, that is what it does for a living.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Meaning of Life
The Human Point of View
Invisible Assumptions
Bipolar Consciousness
Finding the Telos
Psychological Projection
Projective Agency
Intersubjectivity
What About God?
Questions and Answers
How Do I Know?
Methods of Inquiry
References
Index