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humans. So the very idea that philosophy could inquire into the meaning of life was taken as a sign of conceptual confu-sion. The solution to the problem, as Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked, would lie in its disappearance.2 But somehow the problem does not go away; the search for life’s meaning, confused or not, retains as powerful a hold ...
MEANING IN LIFE 5 the case of acting for a loved one, it is the good of that other person that provides us with a reason for our action, what draws us on in the nonpersonal pursuits I have in mind is a perceived or imagined value that lies outside of oneself. I agonize over the article I am trying to write because I
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Recently Alasdair MacIntrye complained in The Chronicle of Higher Education that “neither the university nor philosophy is engaging the questions’ of ‘plain persons.’" Among the questions he had in mind were such questions as: “What is the Meaning of Life?” There have been sporadic attempts throughout the history of English-speaking philosophy to ...
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there is no obvious reason why it cannot be. The role of meaning in a person’s life, and the character of a person’s attachment. to the things that give her meaning, however, have implications not only for the content. of morality but for its place in our lives, and these implications are more difficult to.
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The Meaning of Life: The Major Philosophical Aspects Hidden Behind a Fundamental Question of Human Existence By Paul Letsch The question of the meaning of life is one of the most crucial questions that the human mind is able to produce. The way we respond to it determines the way we design and arrange our life and our culture.
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Rejecting God and a Soul. 1. The Meaning of “Meaning”. One part of philosophy of life’s meaning consists of the systematic attempt to identify what people have in mind when they think about the topic or what they mean by talk of “life’s meaning.”.
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Contemporary Philosophers on Meaning in Life It is common among professional philosophers to draw a distinction between mean-ing in life and the meaning of life. The former concerns a desirable, higher property that a person s life can exhibit to a certain degree, whereas the latter is a feature of
