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  1. MAKING LIFE MEANINGFUL. ‘If there’s no ultimate meaning of life, that doesn’t mean our existence needs to be meaningless; we can determine for ourselves what is meaningful.’. LOLA TINUBU, Association of Black Humanists. Many humanists do not think there is some ‘ultimate’ purpose to life and the universe. Many don’t even like the ...

  2. The Stoic approach is clearly teleological, since it determines what our purpose is in virtue of being human. If anything, keeping in line with Socrates’ claim, our purpose is to live meaningful lives. For the Stoic, living meaningfully involves living virtuously.

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  3. Any successful human society, therefore, must find means to direct, channel, and exploit these potentially destructive energies. Mature make believe explores the strengths and weaknesses, success and failure, of such means, against specific manifestations of the terrific force of subjective emotion.

    • Karl Kroeber
    • 2006
  4. 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...

    • Thaddeus Metz
  5. Jun 3, 2013 · 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...

    • Thaddeus Metz
  6. May 15, 2007 · There is also debate about how the concept of a meaningless life relates to the ideas of a life that is absurd (Nagel 1970, 1986, 214–23; Feinberg 1980; Belliotti 2019), futile (Trisel 2002), and not worth living (Landau 2017, 12–15; Matheson 2017).

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  8. 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.

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