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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).
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...
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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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).
Apr 20, 2022 · After presenting a variety of analyses of the concept of life’s meaning from the past forty years or so and showing that they share the previously noted common ground, I address several challenges to the standard view that have been made in the past five years.
meaning of life’ suggests a rather grand holistic perspective – a sense that our life as a whole is to be measured against some overall standard, goal, or purpose. By contrast, asking about meaning in life invites us to take a more pragmatic and piecemeal approach, and to look at
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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.
