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1 mar 2023 · Human life is temporal (extended and limited), consisting of events in time; meaning is about intelligibility and intelligibility is about fitting in or, more broadly, about connections. So meaning in life is about understanding connections between events, whereby the relevant way of understanding is, more precisely, a narrative one.
15 maj 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?”.
26 lut 2019 · Running with this concept of the ‘meaning’ of something as its ‘sense’, the paper then outlines an accompanying theory of ‘meaningfulness’ as ‘sensefulness’: a measure of the richness of certain aspects of the life, multiplied by their intelligibility.
9 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
1 paź 2020 · Psychologists define meaning in life experience as a subjective feeling state comprised of three central components: (1) significance, the extent to which one feels like they matter and are connected with others, (2) purpose, or engagement in goal directed pursuits, and (3) coherence, the degree to which one’s life and experiences make sense ( H...
14 sty 2021 · Meaning in life and the agency it generates has important implications for social and economic health, which are two critical ingredients of societal flourishing. Meaning promotes social and community engagement. Numerous studies have identified social bonds as a primary source of meaning in life.
In this chapter, the author considers how these goal-based theories of meaning in life interact with the two main theories of the nature of time that have been defended in the recent metaphysics literature, namely, The Dynamic Theory of Time and The Static Theory of Time.
