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- It was written by the Austrian psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of logotherapy, Viktor Frankl, who lived from 1905 to 1997. Frankl argues that our primary task in life is to furnish it with meaning, whatever form this may take. We must find meaning even in our suffering, he writes, for otherwise we are lost.
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Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, India, who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age.
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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3]
Meanwhile in 1833-34 Thomas Carlyle published Sartor Resartus in serialised form; and it was in this highly influential novel, itself partly a parody of German philosophy, that ‘the meaning of life’ entered the English language. Carlyle took the phrase from Lucinde.
May 15, 2007 · Despite the venerable pedigree, it is only since the 1980s or so that a distinct field of the meaning of life has been established in Anglo-American-Australasian philosophy, on which this survey focuses, and it is only in the past 20 years that debate with real depth and intricacy has appeared.
Jul 8, 2024 · “What is the meaning of life?” is simultaneously one of the oldest questions in philosophy and a relatively new concept. Here’s what Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Albert Camus had...
Sep 15, 2022 · In his bestselling self-help book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, the German-born writer Eckhart Tolle (1999) argues that the meaning of life is simply being present. But truly being present is far from a simple matter.
The first English use of the expression “the meaning of life” appeared in 1834 in Thomas Carlyle’s (1795-1881) Sartor Resartus II. ix, where Teufelsdrockh observes, “our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom.”
