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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).
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...
The Meaning of Life. June 2013. Authors: Thaddeus Metz. University of Pretoria. References (108) Abstract. Many major historical figures in philosophy have provided an answer to the question...
Or does ‘the meaning of life’ mean rather ‘the essential signifi cance of life ’ – not so much what it all adds up to as what it all boils down to? A statement like ‘The meaning of life is suffering’ suggests not that suffering is the whole of life, or the point and purpose of life, but that it is the most signifi cant or
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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.’.
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.
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propositions could be said to have meaning, but not objects or events in the world, like the lives of trees, or lobsters, or humans. So the very idea that philosophy could inquire into the meaning of life was taken as a sign of conceptual confu-sion. The solution to the problem, as Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, would lie in its ...
