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   First, I develop a criterion as to what accounts for a satisfactory account of life’s meaningfulness. Second, I use this criterion to evaluate four accounts of life’s meaning, including Stoicism, existentialism, cosmological nihilism, and the theological purposive account.

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2. www.philosophyoflife.org › jpl202107What We Mean by ‘Meaning’ - Philosophy of Life

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   There are two types of arguments found in the literature on existential meaning: (1) debates over existential meaning as a concept; and (2) debates over conceptions of existential meaning. Concepts are what make a question possible – i.e. they are the more-formal definitions assumed by a question.

3. www.researchgate.net › publication › 349158849_The(PDF) The Meaning of Life (Second Revised Edition) - ResearchGate

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   Feb 9, 2021 · 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...

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4. www.athensjournals.gr › 2019/6/3-2-LetschThe Meaning of Life: The Major Philosophical Aspects Hidden ...

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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

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5. academic.oup.com › book › 585The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction - Oxford Academic

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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. This question has become particularly problematic in modern times.

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6. plato.stanford.edu › spr2010 › 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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   Is life a Li Fe or a soul?

   • exists, then, by this view, everyone’s li fe is meaningless. On the other hand, there is moderate life, although not meaning in life as such. If neither God nor a soul exists, then, by this view, everyone’ s meaning. For a moderate supernaturalist, God or a soul would substantially enhance meaningfulness or be a major contributory condition for it.

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   Does the existentialist account of life's meaning satisfy the criterion?

   • So, while the existentialist account of life’s meaning satisfies the conditions of the criterion for a satisfactory account of life’s meaningfulness, it falls short in allowing any project to count towards a meaningful life since it ignores important features of what it means to be human. 21 Sartre (2013). 22 Thanks to Otávio Bueno for this point.

   A Stoic Approach to Living a Meaningful Life - Philosophy of Life

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   What is meaning in life?

   • According to this view, meaning in life varies from person to person, depending on each one's variable mental states. Common instances are views that one's life is more meaningful, the more one gets what one happens to want strongly, the more one achieves one's highly ranked goals, or the more one does what one believes to be really important.

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   Is immortality necessary for a meaningless life?

   • Critics of soul-based views maintain not merely that immortality is not necessary for meaning in life, but also that it is sufficient for a meaningless life.

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8. www.researchgate.net › publication › 327382061_The(PDF) The Meaning of Life - ResearchGate

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   Jun 3, 2013 · In this paper, I seek to diagnose the sources of our dissatisfaction with answers to the question of the meaning of life.