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- Richard Taylor (1970) draws a different moral from the silence of the universe: the recognition that life is, as it were, objectively meaningless, should convince us to turn our search for meaning inward. The kind of meaning in life that it makes sense to care about is meaning to us.
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Dec 13, 2015 · In the concluding chapter of his 1967 book, Good and Evil (Great Minds Series), Taylor suggests that we examine the notion of a meaningless existence so that we can contrast it with a meaningful one. He takes Camus’ image of Sisyphus ‘ eternal, pointless toil as archetypical of meaninglessness.
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Taylor thinks the myth of Sisyphus illustrates a meaningless existence. Unlike Albert Camus, Taylor isn't in the business of reinterpreting the original myth. If you're interested in a video that breaks down Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" check out the video here. A meaningless existence involves endless, pointless activity—an existence full of acti...
Our meaning might come from creating beautiful and lasting things. We often do this through art, architecture, and technology. Sisyphus doesn't create anything of lasting beauty. Taylor points out that if… …Sisyphus hoisted stones to the top of the hill and created a beautiful and lasting temple, then his activity would no longer be pointless. It w...
Now let’s consider how Taylor thinks life takes on meaning. Unlike the original Sisyphus case, we often care about the process of creating things. Sisyphus doesn’t care about rolling the stone to the top of the hill. Yet, Taylor tweaks the case. If we imagine Sisyphus had a substance put in his veins by the gods that makes him most want to roll sto...
There are three objections to Taylor’s view on life’s meaning that we’ll consider. The first objection is that this view is too subjective. The second objection targets an assumption about the good life underlying his view. The third objection is that living a life of meaning requires free will, and Taylor’s view overgeneralizes in applying to bein...
- Do you think the arguments for the thesis are persuasive? Why or why not? - If the thesis were right, which of your beliefs would have to change? - Do you find the three objections to Taylor’s view persuasive? Why or why not? - How might Taylor respond to any of those objections? How would you reply to his response?
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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Taylor finds the meaning of life in the “inner compulsion to be doing just what we were put here to do, and to go on doing it forever”. The way this is phrased, however, is puzzling, and certainly ambiguous. What exactly does it mean to say that we have been “put here to do” something? Who put us here?
Richard Taylor (1919–2003) was an American philosopher renowned. for his dry wit and contributions to metaphysics. He received his PhD at Brown University and later taught there and at Columbia Univer-sity and the University of Rochester. He is most well-known for his. The Meaning of Life.
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His repetitive toil is his life and reality, and it goes on forever, and it is without any meaning whatever. Nothing ever comes of what he is doing, except simply, more of the same. Not by one step, nor by a thousand, nor by ten thousand does he even expiate by the smallest token the sin against the gods that led him into this fate.
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The Meaning of Life. The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret, and the more one concentrates his critical faculty on it the more it seems to elude him, or to evaporate as any intelligible question.
