What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless.

After earning a B. Solomon was particularly interested in the idea of "love" arguing against the notion that romantic love is an inherent state of being and maintaining that it is instead a construct of Western culture popularized and propagated in such a way that it has achieved the status of a universal in the eyes of many. His wife philosopher Kathleen Higgins with whom he co-authored several of his books is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin.

Robert C.