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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.
If the meaning of life lies in the common goal of human beings, then there seems no doubt about what this is. What everyone strives for is happiness. ‘Happiness’, to be sure, is a feeble, holiday-camp sort of word, evocative of manic grins and cavorting about in a multicoloured jacket. But as Aristotle recognizes
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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 on us as ever. The characters in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker ...
Jun 2, 2022 · Rather, we act out of love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love - and it is these actions that give meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good life.
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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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.
