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10 lut 2021 · 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.
20 kwi 2022 · Some suggest that talk of ‘life’s meaning’ is about: pursuing what is worthy of awe and devotion (Taylor 1989, 3–90); seeking out non-trivial purposes (Trisel 2007), perhaps ones beyond our own happiness; leading a life worth living (Landau 2017, 9–12, 15–16); doing what merits esteem or admiration (Kauppinen 2015; cf. Metz 2001 ...
24 kwi 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. This question has become particularly problematic in modern times.
meaning of life’ suggests a rather grand holistic perspective – a sense that our life as a whole is to be measured against some overall standard, goal, or purpose. By contrast, asking about meaning in life invites us to take a more pragmatic and piecemeal approach, and to look at
15 maj 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).
Stephen Coleclough explores the life and works of five of his favourite philosophers and reveals what they had to say about the meaning of life.
the meaning of a person's life would be found not in what he explicitly purposed, nor even in what he was aware of having accomplished, but rather in such changes in the total course of events as were brought about in part through his existence. This is a sense in which an historian may speak of the significance of the work of some statesman ...
