Nicolai Hartmann
The opposite of what the metaphysicians have always thought is true:
precisely a meaningless world is the only meaningful world for a being like man:
In a world full of meaning even without him,
he with his gifts of bestowing meaning would be superfluous.
Primary Sources:
Plato's Logic of Being (1909)
Outlines of a Metaphysics of Knowledge (1921)
Ethics (3 vols) (1926) S. Coit, trans (1932)
Vol One: Moral Phenomena
Vol Two: Moral Values
Vol Three: Moral Freedom
Das Problem des geistigen Seins (1933)
Zur Grundlegung der Ontologie (1935)
Systematische Philosophie in eigener Darstellung (1935)
Moglichkeit und Wirklichkeit (1938)
Der Aufbau der realen Welt. Grundlegung der allgemeinen Kategorienlehre (1940)
Neue Wege der Ontologie (1949)
Philosophie der Natur. Abriss der speziellen Kategorienlehre (1950)
Teleologisches Denken (1951, posthumous)
Asthetik, F Hartmann, ed. (1953, posthumous)
Secondary Sources:
J. Mohanty: Nicolai Hartmann and A. N. Whitehead: A Study in Recent Platonism
O. Samuel: A Foundation of Ontology: A Critical Analysis of Nicolai Hartmann