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1. plato.stanford.edu › entries › life-meaningThe Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 15, 2007 · When the topic of the meaning of life comes up, people tend to pose one of three questions: “What are you talking about?”, “What is the meaning of life?”, and “Is life in fact meaningful?”.

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2. philosophynow.org › issues › 35The Meaning of Life | Issue 35 | Philosophy Now

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   The Meaning of Life. Daniel Hill argues that without God, life would be meaningless. What is the meaning of ‘the meaning of life’? In analytic philosophy the bearers of meaning have usually been considered to be words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Hence life itself is not usually considered to be a bearer of meaning, but the word ‘life’ is.

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   The first English use of the expression “the meaning of life” appeared in 1834 in Thomas Carlyle’s (1795-1881) Sartor Resartus II. ix, where Teufelsdrockh observes, “our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom.”

4. plato.stanford.edu › WIN2009 › entriesThe Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   May 15, 2007 · One part of the field on life's meaning consists of the systematic attempt to clarify what people mean when they ask in virtue of what life has meaning. This section addresses different accounts of the sense of talk of “life's meaning” (and of “significance,” “importance,” and other synonyms).

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   The meaning of life is not a solution to a problem, but a matter of living in a certain way. It is not metaphysical, but ethical. It is not something separate from life, but what makes it worth p. 95 living – which is to say, a certain quality, depth, abundance, and intensity of life.

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   Apr 24, 2008 · The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction shows how centuries of thinkers — from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre, and Beckett — have tackled the conundrum of the meaning of life.

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   Is Love the answer to the meaning of life?

   • Given the importance of love, it is unfortunate just how little we acknowledge love as the answer to the meaning of life. Etymology tells us that ‘philosophy’ translates as ‘the love (philo) of wisdom (sophia)’. Therefore, by virtue of being a philosopher, one is already, by default, concerned with matters of love.

   The Meaning of Life is the Pursuit of Love - Philosophy of Life

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   When was the meaning of life first used?

   • The first English use of the expression “the meaning of life” appeared in 1834 in Thomas Carlyle’s (1795-1881) Sartor Resartus II. ix, where Teufelsdrockh observes, “our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom.”

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   What makes a life meaningful?

   • In a meaningful life all the diverse aspects of it come together to form some kind of coherent whole. One pursues some one goal, to which everything in one’s life is subordinated. (3) A third point, an important one, is that, though meaning is a good thing, it is possible for there to be too much meaning in one’s life, or in its parts.

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   What is the meaning of life?

   • The question of the meaning of life is one that interests philosophers and non-philosophers alike. The question itself is notoriously ambiguous and possibly vague. In asking about the meaning of life, one may be asking about the essence of life, about life’s purpose, about whether and how anything matters, or a host of other things.

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   Who wrote the meaning of life?

   • Schopenhauer, a contemporary of Carlyle, wrote in German, in which “the meaning of life” is “der Sinn des Lebens.” Profoundly influencing the thought of both Nietzsche and Tolstoy, Schopenhauer’s work may be regarded as the springboard that launched modern Western philosophical inquiry into the problem of the meaning of life.

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   Is Life Without Love Death?

   • As opposed to any other ideal, it is love that deserves the title of the meaning of life because it is love that unites, enlightens and heals humanity. In this way, I hope that this paper has gone some way to defend Mahatma Gandi’s assertion that ‘life without love is death’.22

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   The Meaning of Life is the Pursuit of Love Heidi Cobham* Abstract. What is the meaning of life? In this paper, I defend the claim that love, either in part or in full, is the answer to this question. As love occupies such an overarching and central position within human existence, I believe it plays a fundamental role in our understanding of life.