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- Defends the view that meaning in life is largely a function of love; addresses approaches or maxims (e.g., Carpe diem) more than it does principles.
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May 15, 2007 · 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?”.
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The meaning of life is "freedom from suffering" through apatheia (Gr: απαθεια), that is, being objective and having "clear judgement", not indifference. Stoicism's prime directives are virtue, reason, and natural law, abided to develop personal self-control and mental fortitude as means of overcoming destructive emotions. The Stoic does ...
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.
- Terry Eagleton
As we’ve seen, phrases like ‘the meaning of life’ among the Romantics can refer to (1) significance: things in the world bear a signifying relation to ideas in the mind of an author, like words and artifacts do; or (2) purpose: things in the world exhibit order and direction, as if intended by a mind and will.
‘What is the meaning of life?’ is one of those Big Questions about Ultimate Things that recent philosophers have so often been accused of neglecting. It may invite the retort that the meaning of our lives is what we care to give them; we cannot expect meanings to be handed to us on a plate, and even if they were, what use would they be to us?
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).
My general approach to the topic of 'the meaning of life' is in line with another trend in contemporary literature, which is to link mean-ingfulness with intrinsic value. For instance, Britton says that when we say there is meaning in life, 'we are saying that we find some things worth
