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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3]
Jul 8, 2024 · Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) earned himself the title of the “father of modern ethics” while living what is widely accepted as an exceptionally boring life. So boring, in fact, that according to...
Mar 12, 2017 · In the book, Einstein comes back to the question of the purpose of life, and what a meaningful life is, on several occasions. In one passage, he links it to a sense of religiosity.
May 15, 2007 · Despite the venerable pedigree, it is only since the 1980s or so that a distinct field of the meaning of life has been established in Anglo-American-Australasian philosophy, on which this survey focuses, and it is only in the past 20 years that debate with real depth and intricacy has appeared.
Feb 21, 2022 · The meaning of life according to Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl published “Man’s Search for Meaning“in 1945. It inspired millions of people to identify their attitudes towards life. Frankl lived through the horrors of the Holocaust, a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau.
Feb 19, 2018 · Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Getty Images) Emerson was the leading mind behind Transcendentalism, the first purely American school of philosophy. After a brief stint working as a clergyman, Emerson...
Stephen Coleclough explores the life and works of five of his favourite philosophers and reveals what they had to say about the meaning of life.
