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This consensus helps to demonstrate that the pursuit of love is the meaning of life.1. 1. Introduction. There is nothing more human than wondering whether life has meaning and, if it does, what its meaning is.
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Wolf argues in her first lecture that meaning in life is best understood in terms of Fitting Fulfillment. According to her, “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-
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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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The Meaning of Life by Richard Taylor (1970) The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret, and the more you concentrate your critical faculty on it the more it seems to elude you, or to evaporate as any intelligible question. You want to turn it aside, as
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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 empty or shallow. An interest in meaning is also frequently associated with thoughts one might have on one’s deathbed.
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Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life worth living. Meaning is always included by positive psychologists as an element of the good life, but actually figures importantly in all topics of substantive concern to positive psychology. Research is described that links meaning to life satisfaction,
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This paper will focus on the first type of argument about the formal concept of meaning. I claim that existential meaning is a valuable connection between a life and something valuable. I draw this concept mainly from the work of Robert Nozick, who claims meaning arises as a person seeks to connect to external values.
