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Evil and the Meaning of Life. John Cottingham. Faced with horrendous natural and moral evils, many secularists suppose that we can only resign ourselves to the inevitable suffering in a random and cruel universe, or else try to salvage what temporary meaning we can from our own transitory projects. One classic theistic response is to put the ...
- John Cottingham
Richard Taylor. The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret, and the more you concentrate your critical faculty on it the more it seems to elude you, or to evaporate as any intelligible question.
Dec 13, 2015 · In the concluding chapter of his 1967 book, Good and Evil (Great Minds Series), Taylor suggests that we examine the notion of a meaningless existence so that we can contrast it with a meaningful one. He takes Camus’ image of Sisyphus ‘ eternal, pointless toil as archetypical of meaninglessness.
This new edition of The Meaning of Evil (first published in English in 1963) also contains, as an extended introduction, a major re-assessment of Journet and his impressive corpus of work, as well as a theoretical treatment of Journet's concept of evil in the universe and as an ever-present element in the human condition.”
Evil and suffering are often grouped into two categories: • Moral evil: This is suffering caused by human beings such as violence, crime, and war. • Natural evil: These are events with natural causes including disease and natural disasters. SHOULD WE USE THE WORD ‘EVIL’? Some people have reservations about using the word ’evil’.
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.”
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Although most psychology researchers consider meaning in life as a subjective feeling or judgment, most philosophers (e.g., Thaddeus Metz, Daniel Haybron) propose that there are also objective, concrete criteria for what constitutes meaning in life.
