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   Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question of what, if anything, makes life meaningful, although they typically have not put it in these terms (with such talk having arisen only in the past 250 years or so, on which see Landau 1997).

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   Article PDF Available. The Meaning of Life. June 2013. Authors: Thaddeus Metz. University of Pretoria. References (108) Abstract. Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an...

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   Using systematic, critical discussion of recent Anglo-American philosophical literature as a springboard, Thaddeus Metz’s Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study defends several original claims...

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   Is life what you make it? So far, we have looked more at meaning than at life. Yet the word ‘life’ is every bit as problematic as the word ‘meaning’, and it is not hard to see why. For surely the reason why we cannot talk about the meaning of life is that there is no such thing as life? Are we not, as Wittgenstein might say, bewitched ...

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5. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullLife Meaning and Sign Meaning: Philosophical Papers: Vol 47 ...

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   Sep 17, 2018 · Abstract. Philosophers once dismissed questions about meaning in life as conceptually confused. Only language and related phenomena, it was thought, can have meaning; thus, to ask about the meaning of life is to misapply the concept. Recent work by Susan Wolf, Thaddeus Metz, Aaron Smuts, and others has brought new attention and respectability ...

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   Damian Veal*. Abstract. James Tartaglia argues that the question of the meaning of life, when properly construed, is ‘the keystone of philosophy,’ that which ‘locks its traditional preoccupations in place’ and ‘allows them to bear weight in an intellectual culture dominated by science.’.

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   Is life meaningless?

   • ‘Life is Meaningless.’ Compared to What? Damian Veal* James Tartaglia argues that the question of the meaning of life, when properly construed, is ‘the keystone of philosophy,’ that which ‘locks its traditional preoccupations in place’ and ‘allows them to bear weight in an intellectual culture dominated by science.’

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   Are all our lives meaningless?

   • However, most recent discussions of meaning in life are attempts to capture in a single principle all the variegated conditions that can confer meaning on life. This survey focuses heavily on the articulation and evaluation of these theories of what would make life meaningful. It concludes by that all our lives are meaningless. 1.

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   What is the meaning of life?

   • narrative for normative purposes.IntroductionThis is the best possible candidate for the meaning of life:1The meaning of life is what you can wish to happen in the most favourable case in an unforeseeably faraway future, without having to rely on a God (or something alike), a hereafter or the i

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   Is there any literature on meaning in life?

   • T o the best of my knowledge, the undertaken by contemporary Anglo-Amer ican analytic philosophers. through and ev aluate on its own. There is, of course, also literature on meaning in life and there, but not in any thorough way. Although Ihave w orked to make this book it is by a philosopher about philosophy for philosophers. patchwork of essays.

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   Why is life'meaningless' and 'worthless'?

   • of Tartaglia’s conclusion that life is ‘meaningless’ and ‘worthless’ on account of the fact that we have no divinely conferred ‘intrinsic’ meaning and value?69 Moreover, even if we had been created by a supernatural deity, why would that make our lives intrinsically valuable?

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   Does a naturalistic view of life provide comfort?

   • Such a naturalistic perspective on the meaning of life is unlikely to provide the kind of comfort that many people desire, or else have learnt to take for granted; the kind of comfort an infant might feel in knowing that a benevolent parent is watching out for them and will protect them come what may.

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   The meaning of life is what you can wish to happen in the most favourable case in an unforeseeably faraway future, without having to rely on a God (or something alike), a hereafter or the immateriality of your own person, and the attempt of contributing in the most effective way to its fulfilment.