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Feb 6, 2023 · The meaning of life might be the true story of life’s origins and significance.[7] In this sense, life cannot be meaningless, but its meaning might be pleasing or disappointing to us. When people like Tolstoy regard life as meaningless, they seem to be thinking that the truth about life is bad news.[8] 2.
The motivation for thinking that love is the answer. As has been argued, love serves as the driving force for the theist, atheist, and the more cosmic thinker. Love is hailed as the meaning of life because, as the crux of this paper has shown, it serves as a hallmark to what it means to live.
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PHIL 1200: The Meaning of Life. 0.5 credit. An introduction to concerns expressed by the perennial philosophical question, “What is the meaning of life?”. Students will be familiarized with the major philosophical approaches to life’s meaning through a consideration of various contemporary and late modern works in the philosophy of life.
Exploring Meaning of Life. Salman Ahmed Shaikh. This book aims to understand the position of science and faith on questions of meaning in existence. Mutual understanding of original views of both camps is necessary for the mutual progress and co-existence of both reason and values in a healthy, progressive and spiritual society.
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There is no hint of the notion of seeking in this passage. Rather, in this passage, the meaning of a life – denote it with L – is “how the whole realm of value looks from there”. 32 Nozick (1981), p. 611 (emphasis added). The meaning is L’s “place in a wider context of value” that is “beyond [L’s] limits”.
Students will be familiarized with the major philosophical approaches to life’s meaning through a consideration of various contemporary and late modern works in the philosophy of life. Dr. David Matheson Department of Philosophy 3A49 Paterson Hall 613-520-2600 ext. 1928. david.matheson@carleton.ca.
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This book is a collection of all the papers and the essay published in the special issue “Philosophy and Meaning in Life Vol.3,” Journal of Philosophy of Life, Vol.11, No.1, 2021, pp.1-154. We held the Third International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life online at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, on July 21–23, 2020.
