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“meaning in life arises when subjective attraction meets ob-jective attractiveness, and one is able to do something about it or with it.” The three crucial elements are subjective at-traction, objective worthiness, and active, productive engage-ment. Human beings long for fulfillment, on Wolf’s view,
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For humanists, there is no one single answer to the question of what makes a happy or meaningful life. It is up to to decide. We all have diferent talents, tastes, and ambitions, and what makes us happy can change as we grow.
May 15, 2007 · When the topic of the meaning of life comes up, people tend to pose one of three questions: “What are you talking about?”, “What is the meaning of life?”, and “Is life in fact meaningful?”.
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
An absence of meaning is usually marked by a feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction; in contrast, a meaningful life, or meaningful part of life, is necessarily at least somewhat rewarding or fulfilling. It is noteworthy, however, that meaningful experiences are not necessarily particularly happy.
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Many philosophers have concluded that our individual lives can be meaningful even if God does not exist and death marks the permanent end of our existence. 1 David Benatar, in his thought-provoking book The Human Predicament, acknowledges that one’s life can be objectively meaningful from human-based perspectives.
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Purpose theory is “the view that one’s life is meaningful just insofar as one fulfills a purpose that God has assigned to one” (Metz, 2013a, p. 80). Metz also proposes a novel argument to undermine purpose theory by showing that it is inconsistent with the best argument for a God-centered theory of meaning.
