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  1. This survey starts off with recent work that addresses the first, abstract (or “meta”) question regarding the sense of talk of “lifes meaning,” i.e., that aims to clarify what we have in mind when inquiring into the meaning of life (section 1).

  2. Jan 1, 2013 · 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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  3. Roughly, then, according to my proposal, a meaningful life must satisfy two criteria, suitably linked. First, there must be active engagement, and second, it must be engagement in (or with) projects of worth. A life is meaningless if it lacks active engagement with anything.

  4. Jan 27, 2016 · Researchers seem to have two main ways to understand what meaning in life means: coherence and purpose, with a third way, significance, gaining increasing attention. Coherence means a sense of...

  5. meaning in life invites us to take a more pragmatic and piecemeal approach, and to look at various activities and pursuits within human life that we may find fulfilling or regard as meaningful.

  6. matter of living in a certain way. I. is not metaphysical, but ethical. It is not something separate from life, but what makes it worth living – which is to say, a certain quality, depth. abundance, and intensity of life. In this sense, the meaning of life is.

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  8. May 15, 2007 · One part of the field of 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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