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complain that their lives lack meaning; they yearn for meaning; they seek meaning. People sometimes judge others to be leading exceptionally meaningful lives, looking upon them with envy or admiration. Meaning is commonly associated with a kind of depth, and the felt need for meaning is often connected to the worry that one’s life is
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Ferry argues that in their place, love is the only ideal that has transformed human lives in significant and unrecognisable ways, by permeating both the private and public spheres. He holds that love has become the central value in society, the new principle of meaning and the good life.
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When the word “meaningful” is used in characterizing a life (or in character-izing what is missing from a life), it calls something to mind, but it is not clear what, nor is it clear that it calls or is meant to call the same thing to mind in all contexts.
do things because they contribute to meaning in life is “one thought too many.” Jonathan Haidt argues that psychology helps illuminate two elements that are key to the achievement of meaning-fulness in human life. One is the idea of vital engagement, which is characterized by experiences of “flow,” defined as
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Newspapers, magazines, self-help manuals are filled with essays on how to find meaning in your life; sermons and therapies are built on the truism that happiness is not just a matter of material comfort, or sensual pleasure, but also of a deeper kind of fulfillment.
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The Meaning of Life. What We Mean by ‘Meaning’. Aaron Brooks* Abstract. There are two types of arguments found in the literature on existential meaning: (1) debates over existential meaning as a concept; and (2) debates over conceptions of existential meaning.
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Feb 6, 2023 · Does life’s having meaning depend on a supernatural reality? Is death a threat to life’s meaning? Is life the sort of thing that can have a “meaning”? In what sense? Here we will consider some approaches to questions about the meaning of life.
