The Good Life

Plot

Introduction: the good life -- The unavoidable question -- A shattered life -- The great paradoxes -- A nice party with a lot of nice people -- Shopping for the holy grail -- Laughing at death -- More important than life itself -- A life of significance -- A silent good-bye -- My happiness, right or wrong -- Whose life is it? -- A very rich man -- Living legacies -- Greater love hath no man than this -- My life for yours, but to what end? -- Journey into illusion -- Living within the truth -- Can we know the truth? -- What is life worth? -- God's ID -- Morality and the natural order -- The gift of knowing right from wrong -- Beauty : the sign of God's care -- Written on the heart -- Postmodernists in recovery -- Hope, freedom, and happiness -- The bad news -- Providence -- A good death -- Infinite truth and love -- Epilogue: back to the beginning.