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fear that, absent some larger narrative, human life must ul-timately be meaningless, snuffed out by death and the even-tual implosion of the universe. Nor, finally, do these lectures propound a particular recipe for constructing a meaningful life, though Wolf does help clarify what it means to do so and why it matters.
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addressed how an individual’s life might be meaningful in virtue of God more often than how the human race might be. Although some have argued that the meaningfulness of human life as such merits inquiry to no less a degree (if not more) than the meaning in a life (Seachris 2013; Tartaglia 2015; cf. Trisel
is today. The goldfinches and the tiny caterpillars, the brilliant sun, if looked at lovingly and thoughtfully, will lift the soul out of the smaller life of human care that is of selfish aims, bounded by seventy years, into the greater limitless life which has been going on over universal space from endless ages past, which is going on now, and
human life, as a whole, to be meaningful, it must exist within a wider context of meaning, Tartaglia argues. Tartaglia claims that the physical universe does not provide life with a context of meaning. Therefore, he contends that a “transcendent context of meaning” is necessary for life to be meaningful.12
MEANING IN LIFE 3 the possibility that we live meaningful lives, understanding meaningfulness as an attribute lives can have that is not re-ducible to or subsumable under either happiness, as it is ordi-narily understood, or morality. I shall be mainly concerned to explain the feature I call meaningfulness in life and to pres-
whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. If life is meaningless, there is no point to pursuing traditional philosophical questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and morality. Why life is worth living is indeed an urgent question, but it is rarely the question of suicide.
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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.
