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When the topic of the meaning of life comes up, people tend to pose one of three questions: “What are you talking about?”, “What is the meaning of life?”, and “Is life in fact meaningful?”. The analytic literature can be usefully organized according to which question it seeks to answer.
Perhaps the question “What is the meaning of life?” is not at all like the question “What is the speed of light?” or the question “How tall is the Eiffel Tower?”, both of which make sense and can be answered.
Philosophy and the Meaning of Life. Robert Nozick’s engaging philosophical reflections on the meaning of life start with a joke, which he analyzes. He then presents and discusses eight different modes of meaning. The problem of a life’s meaning arises, he says, because of a life’s limitations. These include the fact that one dies.
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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Abstract. While ‘the meaning of life’ has grown in prominence as a topic of philosophical inquiry, few Thomists have addressed it. Joshua Hochschild has recently offered a plausible explanation, arguing that ‘the meaning of life’ is a late modern ‘invention’, at home in a conceptual framework both philosophically problematic and ...
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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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.
