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May 15, 2007 · 3. Naturalism. Recall that naturalism is the view that a physical life is central to life’s meaning, that even if there is no spiritual realm, a substantially meaningful life is possible. Like supernaturalism, contemporary naturalism admits of two distinguishable variants, moderate and extreme (Metz 2019).
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Apr 20, 2022 · Thaddeus Metz is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His recent publications on life’s meaning include God, Soul and the Meaning of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2019), ‘The Meaning of Life’ in T. Crane and E. Mason, eds., Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2020), and ‘Supernaturalist Analytic Existentialism’ (International Journal for ...
May 15, 2007 · 1. The Meaning of “Meaning”. 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).
For a third, somewhat distinct analysis of the question of life’s meaning in purely cognitive terms, there is the proposal, from Charles Repp (2018), that when we enquire into life’s meaning, we are asking about the extent to which, and respects in which, an individual has “perceived sign meaning” (Repp, 2018, p. 404). Sign meaning is what properties signify, e. g., smoke means fire ...
- Thaddeus Metz
- 2019
Sep 5, 2016 · It's the most comprehensive philosophical analysis of meaning to date. Metz isn’t interested in whether the universe has meaning, that is, whether there's a meaning of life; rather, he's interested in what constitutes meaning in a person's life (p. 3). Meaning is what the lives of Nelson Mandela, Charles Darwin, Pablo Picasso, and Fyodor ...
- Sean Meseroll
- 2016
The Meanings of “Meaning”. Meaning-talk is common in everyday discourse. Most ordinary uses of “meaning” tend to cluster around three basic ideas: (1) sense-making (which can include the ideas of intelligibility, clarification, or coherence), (2) purpose, and (3) significance (which can include the idea of value).
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May 10, 2010 · The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. A light and lively essay on a variety of facets of the question of life’s meaning, often addressing linguistic and literary themes. Rejects subjective or “postmodern” approaches to meaning in favor of a need for harmonious or loving relationships.
