Table of Contents

I From the Philosophical Perspective.- 1. Linguistic Philosophy and ‘The Meaning of Life’.- 2. Phenomenology of Religion and Human Purpose.- 3. The Concept of Purpose in a Naturalistic Humanist Perspective.- 4. The Recovery of Human Purpose in the Religious Life.- II From the Religious Perspective.- 5. Orthodox Judaism and Human Purpose.- 6. Liberal Judaism and the Human Purpose.- 7. Human Purposiveness in St. Thomas Aquinas.- 8. The Concept of Purpose in Reformation Thought.- 9. The Liberal Commitment to Divine Immanence.- III From the Perspective of Indian Religion.- 10. Purpose of Man in the Tradition of Indian Orthodoxy.- 11. The Concepts of Man and Human Purpose in Contemporary Indian Thought.