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May 15, 2007 · Most analytic philosophers writing on meaning in life have been trying to develop and evaluate theories, i.e., fundamental and general principles, that are meant to capture all the particular ways that a life could obtain meaning.
The meaning of life is what you can wish to happen in the most favourable case in an unforeseeably faraway future, without having to rely on a God (or something alike), a hereafter or the immateriality of your own person, and the attempt of contributing in the most effective way to its fulfilment.
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Academic philosophers do not talk much about meaningfulness in life. The term is more likely to be used by theologians and therapists, and by people who are in some way dissatisfied with their lives but are unable to pin down why. People sometimes complain that their lives lack meaning; they yearn for meaning; they seek meaning.
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Feb 9, 2021 · 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...
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Robert Nozick’s engaging philosophical reflections on the meaning of life start with a joke, which he analyzes. He then presents and discusses eight different modes of meaning. The problem of a life’s meaning arises, he says, because of a life’s limitations. These include the fact that one dies.
In Meaning in Life (2013, Oxford University Press), Thaddeus Metz presents a robust and innovative naturalistic account of what makes an individual’s life objectively meaningful. Metz discusses six existing arguments for purpose theory of meaning in life and offers objections to each of these arguments.
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Nozick’s proposal: “Attempts to find meaning in life seek to transcend the limits of an individual life. . . . For a life to have meaning, it must connect with other things, with some things or values beyond itself” (ibid.).
